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Room-temperature polariton luminescence from a bulk GaN microcavity

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Marc Ilegems, Eric Feltin, Raphaël Butté, Gabriel Christmann
2006
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Abstract

We report strong exciton-photon coupling at room temperature in a hybrid high quality bulk 3 lambda/2 GaN cavity with a bottom lattice-matched AlInN/AlGaN distributed Bragg reflector through angle-resolved polarized photoluminescence (PL). Coupling of the optically active free excitons (X-A, X-B, and X-C) to the cavity mode is demonstrated, with their contribution to the PL spectra varying with polarization. Under TE polarization, exciton oscillator strengths for X-A and X-B are about one order of magnitude larger than in bulk GaAs. Photoluminescence exhibits a strong bottleneck effect despite its thermal lineshape.

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Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Marc Ilegems, Eric Feltin, Raphaël Butté, Gabriel Christmann
2006
Journal Articles

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/e3c11698-7d7a-44af-8292-a95ff71ebe83

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