Room temperature photoluminescence studies of nitrided InP(100)

The evolution of thin InN overlayer grown on InP(100) substrate versus the duration of nitridation process, performed by means of glow discharge source (GDS), and the angle of reactive nitrogen flux was investigated. The correlations between the electronic properties, gathered from photoluminescence (PL) measurements, and the chemical composition of InN-InP interfaces, derived from Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) were found. AES revealed that the nitridation process proceeds quickly in time showing self-limiting behavior. It is more effective for grazing nitrogen flux. The interface state density distributions, NSS(E), were determined via advanced computer-aided analysis of dependencies of band edge PL efficiency, YPL, versus excitation light intensity, & The analysis showed that the substrates were well passivated with NSS(E) minima on the order of 5∙1011 cm-2eV-1. The nitrogen flux angle during the nitridation was found to have an influence on YPL(&¬) spectra. In all analyzed cases the grazing nitrogen flux generated the interface with slightly improved NSS(E) distribution. Finally, the behavior of YPL versus & and NSS(E) was precisely examined