Dislocation-enhanced spin relaxation in wurtzite GaN Auteur(s): Brimont C., Gallart Mathieu, Cregut Olivier, Hoenerlage Bernd, Gilliot Pierre
Conference: International Conference on Luminescence and Optical Spectroscopy of Condensed Matter (ICL'08) (Lyon (FRANCE), FR, 2008-07-07) Ref HAL: hal-00545164_v1 Exporter : BibTex | endNote Résumé: By performing non-degenerate pump-probe experiments, we study the relaxation dynamics of spin-polarized excitons in wurtzite epitaxial gallium nitride (GaN). Characteristic times of the different spin-relaxation channel (electron, heavy- and light- or split-off-hole spin flips) for different samples as a function of temperature are extracted. We show that the high dislocation density increases the spin relaxation of electrons and holes through the defect-assisted Elliot-Yafet mechanism. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |