Professor Robert Taylor

Abstract:

We report on optical characterization of self-assembled InGaN quantum dots (QDs) grown on three GaN pseudo-substrates with differing threading dislocation densities. QD density is estimated via microphotoluminscence on a masked sample patterned with circular apertures, and appears to increase with dislocation density. A non-linear excitation technique is used to observe the sharp spectral lines characteristic of QD emission. Temporal variations of the wavelength of emission from single QDs are observed and attributed to spectral diffusion. The magnitude of these temporal variations is seen to increase with dislocation density, suggesting locally fluctuating electric fields due to charges captured by dislocations are responsible for the spectral diffusion in this system. © 2013 The Japan Society of Applied Physics.

Abstract:

Nanorod arrays were fabricated on a blue InGaN/GaN single quantum well (QW) LED wafer using nanoimprint lithography. A regular hexagonal lattice of nanorods was made at a pitch of 2 μm producing single quantum disks in the nanorods with diameter of ̃400 nm. Time integrated micro-photoluminescence was performed to investigate the emission properties of top down processed single nanorods at 4.2 K. Microphotoluminescence maps were made to study the spatial isolation of the photoluminescence emission, showing a good contrast ratio between nanorods. Excitation power dependent studies show screening of the quantum confined Stark effect for both the unprocessed wafer and the single nanorod. At low excitation powers, localised states appearing as sharp peaks in the photoluminescence spectrum were visible with a density of approximately four peaks per nanorod. © 2013 The Japan Society of Applied Physics.

Abstract:

We study the coupling of cavities defined by the local modulation of the waveguide width using confocal photoluminescence microscopy. We are able to spatially map the profile of the antisymmetric (antibonding) and symmetric (bonding) modes of a pair of strongly coupled cavities (photonic molecule) and follow the coupled cavity system from the strong coupling to the weak coupling regime in the presence of structural disorder. The effect of disorder on this photonic molecule is also investigated numerically with a finite-difference time-domain method and a semi-analytical approach, which enables us to quantify the light localization observed in either cavity as a function of detuning. © 2013 Optical Society of America.

Abstract:

We report on the optical characterization of non-polar a-plane InGaN quantum dots (QDs) grown by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy using a short nitrogen anneal treatment at the growth temperature. Spatial and spectral mapping of sub-surface QDs has been achieved by cathodoluminescence at 8 K. Microphotoluminescence studies of the QDs reveal resolution limited sharp peaks with typical linewidth of 1 meV at 4.2 K. Time-resolved photoluminescence studies suggest the excitons in these QDs have a typical lifetime of 538 ps, much shorter than that of the c-plane QDs, which is strong evidence of the significant suppression of the internal electric fields. © 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.