Abstract

ABSTRACTWe present here a detailed investigation of the optical properties of GaN epilayers grown by low pressure MOVPE on sapphire substrates, using 2K photoluminescence as well as 2K reflectance spectroscopy. A large series of samples has been grown under eclectic conditions (V/III ratio, growth temperature, nitridation steps,...) which allows us to propose the first semi-quantitative investigation of the sample-dependent band gap energies. This dependence of the bandgap is analyzed in terms of i) residual stress, ii) exciton parameters and iii) deformation potential characteristics of the A, B, C excitons. the residual stress cannot be simply explained in terms of the differences between the thermal expansion coefficients of the various compounds, but are strongly correlated to the V/III growth ratio imposed during the growth, and subsequently to the influence of this parameter at the scale of electronic and structural characteristics of the deposited layers.

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