title: Improving the emission efficiency of MBE-grown GaN/AlN QDs by strain control.
abstract: The quantum-confined stark effect induced by polarization has significant effects on the optical properties of nitride heterostructures. In order to improve the emission efficiency of GaN/AlN quantum dots [QDs], a novel epitaxial structure is proposed: a partially relaxed GaN layer followed by an AlN spacer layer is inserted before the growth of GaN QDs. GaN/AlN QD samples with the proposed structure are grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The results show that by choosing a proper AlN spacer thickness to control the strain in GaN QDs, the internal quantum efficiencies have been improved from 30.7% to 66.5% and from 5.8% to 13.5% for QDs emitting violet and green lights, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China. zbhao@tsinghua.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Lang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Niu
authors.forename: Zhibiao
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hao
authors.forename: Jiannan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Yibin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Lai
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Luo