Role of nitrogen in photoluminescence up-conversion in GaInNP/GaAs heterostructures

• Alloying of disordered GaInP with nitrogen is shown to lead to very efficient PLU in GaInNP/GaAs heterostructures grown by gas source molecular beam epitaxy (GS‐MBE). This is attributed to the N‐induced changes in the band alignment at the GaInNP/GaAs heterointerface from the type I for the N‐free structure to the type II in the samples with N compositions exceeding 0.5%. Based on the performed excitation power dependent measurements, a possible mechanism for the energy upconversion is suggested as being due to the two‐step two‐photon absorption. The photon recycling effect is shown to be important for the structures with N=1%, from time‐resolved PL measurements. © 2007 American Institute of Physics

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