Frontiers in Physics (Oct 2024)

Temperature dependent radiative and non-radiative recombination lifetimes of luminescent amorphous silicon oxynitride systems

  • Pengzhan Zhang,
  • Pengzhan Zhang,
  • Xinyu Liu,
  • Ling Zhang,
  • Danbei Wang,
  • Kongpin Wu,
  • Sake Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2024.1503269
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12

Abstract

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In our previous work, we deeply researched the absolute photoluminescence (PL) quantum yields of luminescent modulating a-SiNxOy films with various N/Si atom ratios under different measurement temperatures. In this work, we further systematically studied the temperature dependent kinetic processes of radiative and non-radiative recombinations in a-SiNxOy systems in the visible light range. First, we investigated the structure of a-SiNxOy films and obtained the concentrations of both trivalent Si and N-Si-O defects related dangling bonds through XPS, FTIR and EPR measurements. Then we further tested the transient fluorescence attenuation of a-SiNxOy films detected at different emission wavelengths. We found that the PL lifetimes of a-SiNxOy films vary with the change of N-Si-O defect state concentrations, which is different from the typical PL decay characteristics of band tail related a-SiNx films previously reported. By combining the resulting PL IQE values with the ns-PL lifetimes, we further intensively redetermined the radiative and non-radiative recombination lifetimes of a-SiNxOy systems. The related radiative recombination rates were obtained (kr∼108 s−1), which can be compared to the results in the direct band gap.

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