학술논문

THz transient photoconductivity of the III–V dilute nitride GaP y As1−y−x N x
Document Type
article
Source
Semiconductor Science and Technology. 33(12)
Subject
III-V N
photovoltaic
ultrafast
terahertz
intermediate band
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Materials Engineering
Applied Physics
Language
Abstract
THz Time-Resolved Photoconductivity is used to probe carrier dynamics in the dilute III-V nitride GaP0.49As0.47N0.036. In these measurements a femtosecond optical pump-pulse excites electron-hole pairs, and a delayed THz pulse measures the change in conductivity. We find the photoconductivity is dominated by localized carriers. The decay of photoconductivity after excitation is consistent with bimolecular electron-hole recombination with recombination constant r = 3.2 0.8 10-8 cm3 s-1. We discuss the implications for applications in solar energy.