Temporally and spatially resolved photoluminescence investigation of (11(2)over-bar2) semi-polar InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells grown on nanorod templates

By means of time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) and confocal PL measurements, temporally and spatially resolved optical properties have been investigated on a number of InxGa1-xN/GaN multiple-quantum-well (MQW) structures with a wide range of indium content alloys from 13% to 35% on (11 (2) over bar2) semi-polar GaN with high crystal quality, obtained through overgrowth on nanorod templates. With increasing indium content, the radiative recombination lifetime initially increases as expected, but decreases if the indium content further increases to 35%, corresponding to emission in the green spectral region. The reduced radiative recombination lifetime leads to enhanced optical performance for the high indium content MQWs as a result of strong exciton localization, which is different from the behaviour of c-plane InGaN/GaN MQWs, where quantum confined Stark effect plays a dominating role in emission process. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.