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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 117, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4907670
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61474110, 61377020, 61376089, 61223005, 61176126]
- National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars [60925017]
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The optical and structural properties of InGaN/GaN multi-quantum wells (MQWs) with different thicknesses of low temperature grown GaN cap layers are investigated. It is found that the MQW emission energy red-shifts and the peak intensity decreases with increasing GaN cap layer thickness, which may be partly caused by increased floating indium atoms accumulated at quantum well (QW) surface. They will result in the increased interface roughness, higher defect density, and even lead to a thermal degradation of QW layers. An extra growth interruption introduced before the growth of GaN cap layer can help with evaporating the floating indium atoms, and therefore is an effective method to improve the optical properties of high indium content InGaN/GaN MQWs. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.
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