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We report photoluminescence experiments bringing the evidence for intervalley scattering in bulk hexagonal boron nitride. From a quantitative analysis of the defect-related emission band, we demonstrate that transverse optical phonons at the K point of the Brillouin zone assist inter-K valley scattering, which becomes observable because stacking faults in bulk hexagonal boron nitride provide a density of final electronic states. Time-resolved experiments highlight the different recombination dynamics of the phonon replicas implying either virtual excitonic states or real electronic states in the structural defects.

Commentaires: Editors' suggestion: The authors have conducted an experimental study of hexagonal boron nitride using steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence. The assignment of previously observed lines of unknown origin is made convincingly to indirect excitons assisted by acoustic and optical phonons and to defect-assisted transitions. This is further evidence for h-BN being an indirect band-gap semiconductor.

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We determine the internal quantum efficiency of strain-balanced AlGaN-InGaN-GaN hetero-structures designed for yellow-amber light emission, by using a recent model based on the kinetics of the photoluminescence decay initiated by Yoshiya Iwata, Ryan G. Banal, Shuhei Ichikawa, Mitsuru Funato, and Yoichi Kawakami, Journal of Applied Physics 117, 075701 (2015). Our results indicate that low temperature internal quantum efficiencies sit in the 50 % range and we measure that adding an AlGaN layer increases the internal quantum efficiency from 50% up to 57 % with respect to the GaN-InGaN case. More dramatic, it almost doubles from 2.5 % up to 4.3 % at room temperature.

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We investigate the transport of dipolar indirect excitons along the growth plane of polar (Al,Ga)N/GaN quantum well structures by means of spatially and time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy. The transport in these strongly disordered quantum wells is activated by dipole-dipole repulsion. The latter induces an emission blue shift that increases linearly with exciton density, whereas the radiative recombination rate increases exponentially. Under continuous, localized excitation, we observe continuously decreasing emission energy, as excitons propagate away from the excitation spot. This corresponds to a steady-state gradient of exciton density,measured over several tens of micrometers. Time-resolved microphotoluminescence experiments provide information on the dynamics of recombination and transport of dipolar excitons.We account for the ensemble of experimental results by solving the nonlinear drift-diffusion equation. Quantitative analysis suggests that in such structures, exciton propagation on the scale of 10 to 20 μm is mainly driven by diffusion, rather than by drift, due to the strong disorder and the presence of nonradiative defects. Secondary exciton creation, most probably by the intense higher-energy luminescence, guided along the sample plane, is shown to contribute to the excitonemission pattern on the scale up to 100 μm. The exciton propagation length is strongly temperature dependent, the emission being quenched beyond a critical distance governed by nonradiative recombination.

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GaN/AlGaN polar single quantum wells have attracted particular attention due to their large binding energies and the presence of strong internal electric fields that naturally induce long-lived excitons. In this case, the exciton transport is driven by the potential landscape caused by the local alteration of the built-in electric field, which results from the exciton accumulation at the same point. We study by spatially- and time-resolved PL experiments AlGaN/GaN coupled quantum wells (QW). The active zone of studied sample consists of a 30 nm thick Al0.20Ga0.80N barrier, a 4.4 nm (17 atomic monolayers) GaN QW followed by 1 monolayer of Al0.20Ga0.80N and a 1.6 nm (6 atomic monolayers) GaN QW and 30 nm thick Al0.20Ga0.80N cap layer. By solving Schroedinger-Poisson equation, we illustrate the two regimes of strongly screened electric field and the totally un-screened QW system. We show that the screening of the build-in electric field enhances the electron-hole wave-function overlap and increases the optical recombination energy. In other words, dipoledipole repulsion between excitons raises their potential energy and drastically increases their radiative recombination rate. A blue-shift of 0.3 eV under continues wave, localized excitation and a quasi-continuous red-shift of the emission as excitons are drifted away from the excitation spot up to distances of 90 μm are observed experimentally. Strong LO-phonon replica are also noticed, as a result of the strongly dipolar character of excitons [1]. These replicas follow the same position dependence as the zerophonon line. Using our Schroedinger-Poisson equation solver, we can extract from the measured blue-shift the position-dependent exciton density. Last, we present simulations of the observed transport features, namely the exciton densities and luminescence intensities by solving the nonlinear drift-diffusion equation. We establish that the long-range excitonic transport is mainly dominated by drift caused by repulsive dipole-dipole interaction between excitons in combination with their long lifetimes. [1] S. Kalliakos, X. B. Zhang, T. Taliercio, P. Lefebvre, B. Gil, N. Grandjean, B. Damilano, and J. Massies. Applied Physics Letters 80, 428 (2002).

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