Origin of the anomalous temperature evolution of photoluminescence peak energy in degenerate InN nanocolumns

Opt Express. 2009 Jul 6;17(14):11690-7. doi: 10.1364/oe.17.011690.

Abstract

Photoluminescence (PL) behaviour in InN nanocolumns reveal decreasing, increasing and near invariant peak energies (E(PL)) as a function of temperature. Samples, having E(PL)~0.730 eV at 20 K, showed temperature invariance of E(PL). Samples possessing E(PL) on the lower and higher energy side of 0.730 eV demonstrate a normal redshift and anomalous blueshift, respectively, with increasing temperature. This temperature evolution can be effectively explained on the basis of a competition between a conventional red shift from lattice dilation, dominant for low carrier density sample, on one hand, and a blue shift of the electron and hole quasi Fermi-level separation, dominant for high carrier density samples, on the other.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Equipment Design
  • Indium / chemistry*
  • Light
  • Luminescence
  • Metal Nanoparticles / chemistry*
  • Microscopy, Electron, Scanning / methods
  • Microscopy, Electron, Transmission / methods
  • Nanotechnology / methods*
  • Photochemistry / methods*
  • Semiconductors
  • Spectrophotometry / methods
  • Temperature

Substances

  • Indium
  • indium nitride