Europium-doped GaN(Mg) : beyond the limits of the light-emitting diode

O'Donnell, K.P. and Edwards, P.R. and Kappers, M.J. and Lorenz, K. and Alves, E.J. and Boćkowski, M.X. (2014) Europium-doped GaN(Mg) : beyond the limits of the light-emitting diode. Physica Status Solidi C, 11 (3-4). 662–665. ISSN 1610-1642 (https://doi.org/10.1002/pssc.201300519)

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Abstract

Rare-earth doped III-N semiconductors have been studied for decades on account of their possible application in visible light-emitting diodes (LED) with built-in utility as red (e.g. Eu), green (Er) and blue (Tm) monochromatic sources (O'Donnell and Dierolf (eds.), Topics in Applied Physics, Vol. 124 (Springer, Dordrecht, 2010) [1]). However, to date, no commercial devices have been introduced on the basis of these materials. Recently, we discovered thermally activated hysteresis in the emission spectrum of p-type GaN thin films that were co-doped with Mg and Eu (O'Donnell et al., Proc. ICPS31, Zurich, July 2012 [2]). We have also reported an unexpected Zeeman splitting and induced magnetic moment of Eu3+ ions in GaN (Kachkanov et al., Scientific Rep. 2, 969 (2012) and MRS Proc. 1290–i03–06 (2011) [3, 4]). These findings encourage speculation on taking the study of RE-doped III-N beyond the limited goal of improving LED efficiency into the realm of novel magneto-optic and quantum-optical devices. In particular we will describe in this presentation the spectroscopy of ion-implanted and annealed GaN(Mg): Eu samples and the possible exploitation of the Mg acceptor in GaN as a qubit.

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O'Donnell, K.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3072-3675, Edwards, P.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7671-7698, Kappers, M.J., Lorenz, K., Alves, E.J. and Boćkowski, M.X.;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:47513
    Dates:
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    April 2014
    Published
    7 February 2014
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    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:15 Apr 2014 15:30
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/47513
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