Spin Relaxation in Wurtzite GaN: Valence Band Structure and Dislocation Effects Auteur(s): Brimont C., Gallart Mathieu, Cregut Olivier, Hoenerlage Bernd, Gilliot Pierre
Conference: 29th International Conference on Physics of Semiconductors (Rio de Janeiro (BRAZIL), FR, 2008-07-27) Ref HAL: hal-00545158_v1 Exporter : BibTex | endNote Résumé: We performed time- and polarization-resolved pump-and-probe experiments on several differently strained GaN wurtzite epilayers.. Thanks to a selective spectral excitation of spin-polarized A-excitons at various temperatures and a fitting procedure considering the different A and B spin exciton states, we show that the Elliott-Yafet mechanism is the dominant spin-relaxation process. It origins from the high dislocation density in all of our GaN epilayers. |