Dynamics of time-resolved photoluminescence in GaInNAs and GaNAsSb solar cells

We report a time-resolved photoluminescence study for GaInNAs and GaNAsSb p-i-n bulk solar cells grown on GaAs(100). In particular, we studied the extent to which the carrier lifetime decreases with the increase of N content. Rapid thermal annealing proved to significantly increase the decay times b...

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Autores principales: Gubanov, Alexander, Polojärvi, Ville, Aho, Arto, Tukiainen, Antti, Tkachenko, Nikolai V, Guina, Mircea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2014
Materias:
Nano Express
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3978117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24533702
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1556-276X-9-80
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Sumario:We report a time-resolved photoluminescence study for GaInNAs and GaNAsSb p-i-n bulk solar cells grown on GaAs(100). In particular, we studied the extent to which the carrier lifetime decreases with the increase of N content. Rapid thermal annealing proved to significantly increase the decay times by a factor of 10 to 12 times, for both GaInNAs and GaNAsSb heterostructures, while for the 1-eV bandgap GaNAsSb structure, grown at the same growth conditions as the GaInNAs, the photoluminescence decay time remained slightly below 100 ps after annealing; the approximately 1.15-eV GaInNAs p-i-n solar cell exhibited a lifetime as long as 900 ps. PACS: 78.47.D; 78.55.Cr; 88.40.hj

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