Characteristics of amplified spontaneous emission of high indium content InGaN/GaN quantum wells with various silicon doping conditions

Abstract

We compared the temperature dependent spectral variations of the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) between InGaN/GaN quantum well samples of no doping, well doping, and barrier doping of silicon. The comparisons were particularly made between two series of samples with a low and a high indium content. The results show that a multi-peak ASE spectral feature and a low energy stimulated emission peak, existing at the photoluminescence shoulder, could be observed only in the high-indium-content, barrier-doped sample. Such results are supposed to originate from the formation of quantum dots of various sizes, concentrations, and shapes under the condition of barrier doping in the sample. © 2003 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.