Intensity-dependent dynamics of photoexcited carriers in ZnO epilayers studied using pump-probe reflectance

Bing Guo; Y. H. Li; H. Ye; Peifu Gu; Kam Sing Wong

doi:10.1117/12.576597

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20 January 2005 Intensity-dependent dynamics of photoexcited carriers in ZnO epilayers studied using pump-probe reflectance

Bing Guo, Y. H. Li, H. Ye, Peifu Gu, Kam Sing Wong

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Proceedings Volume 5628, Semiconductor Lasers and Applications II; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.576597
Event: Photonics Asia, 2004, Beijing, China

Abstract

The dynamics of carriers/excitons in as grown and annealed ZnO epilayers at room-temperature under high excitation densities were monitored by pump-probe(4.65/3.1 eV) differential reflectance transients on a time scale equal to 100 ps. The ΔR buildup showed a density-independent time delay of about 1.45 ps relative to the pump pulse, indicative of hot phonon effects, i.e., LO-phonon bottleneck, common to the as grown and annealed ZnO epilayers. Both appeared an initial fast ΔR decay with a time constant of about 20-25 ps due to rapid defect trapping. After the fast decay, the ΔR transient of the as grown ZnO became of sign reversal and turned to an induced absorption signal from defect levels with a decay time of several hundred picoseconds weakly dependent on excitation intensities. For the annealed ZnO, no change over in sign was observed on the slowly recovering component of ΔR, of which, in particular, the decay time was found to linearly depend upon carrier density. This finding, as confirmed by photoluminescence measurements, was attributed to a bimolecular recombination in terms of an exciton-exciton scattering in ZnO. These observations suggest that this unique pump-probe technique can provide a useful tool for understanding the defect physics of semiconducting materials.

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Bing Guo, Y. H. Li, H. Ye, Peifu Gu, and Kam Sing Wong "Intensity-dependent dynamics of photoexcited carriers in ZnO epilayers studied using pump-probe reflectance", Proc. SPIE 5628, Semiconductor Lasers and Applications II, (20 January 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.576597

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