Synthesis of Rare-Earth Doped and Undoped GaN Nano-Crystallites
Abstract
Semiconductor nanostructures doped with rare earth ions is a possible way to overcome the limitation of low luminescence efficiency of rare earth ions, providing that the strong confinement of carriers in dots will enhance their recombination in the vicinity of RE ions.
Undoped and Eu3+-doped GaN crystallites have been synthesized by the co-precipitation method followed by nitridation reaction at 1100 °C for 2 h, under a continuous flow of NH3 gas. X-ray diffraction patterns (XRD) revealed that the synthesized undoped and Eu3+-doped GaN crystallites are of a single-phase wurtzite structure. The morphology of the samples was examined by field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) and high resolution transmission electron microscope (HR-TEM), and it was shown that the micron-sized particles are composed of agglomerated nano-crystallites. Under the above band gap excitation, all samples exhibited room-temperature photoluminescence with the characteristic GaN band-edge emission peak centered at 363 nm (∼3.4 eV, FWHM ∼ 10 nm) as well as broad defect-related emission peak centered at about 405 nm. The Eu-doped GaN sample, under below bandgap excitation, exhibited red emission peaks centered at 593 nm and 616 nm corresponding to the 5D0 → 7F1 and 5D0 → 7F2 transitions, respectively, within the 4f shell of Eu3+ ions.- Publication:
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Modern Trends in Physics Research - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on MTPR-10. Edited by El-Nadi Lotfia M. Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd
- Pub Date:
- March 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1142/9789814504898_0014
- Bibcode:
- 2013mtpr.conf...97E