title: Correlations between surface-excitonic emission bands in ZnO nanowires.
abstract: We report on the investigation of correlated spectral properties of two different surface-related photoluminescence bands in ZnO nanowires. We show that the spectral position and the temperature-dependent intensity of the surface-related emission band A are directly correlated with the emission of the surface-exciton band SX. We measure the thermal activation energies of both emission bands and present time-resolved photoluminescence data to deduce the photoluminescence decay time of the A emission band. We propose a model to explain the experimental observations and assign the A emission band to excitons bound to structural defects in the surface layer of the nanowires.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Bremen, PO Box 330 440, D-28334 Bremen, Germany.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wischmeier
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Voss
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rückmann
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gutowski