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Direct observation of the carrier transport process in InGaN quantum wells with a pn-junction |
Haiyan Wu(吴海燕), Ziguang Ma(马紫光), Yang Jiang(江洋), Lu Wang(王禄), Haojun Yang(杨浩军), Yangfeng Li(李阳锋), Peng Zuo(左朋), Haiqiang Jia(贾海强), Wenxin Wang(王文新), Junming Zhou(周钧铭), Wuming Liu(刘伍明), Hong Chen(陈弘) |
Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy, Beijing Key Laboratory for New Energy Materials and Devices, Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China |
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Abstract A new mechanism of light-to-electricity conversion that uses InGaN/GaN QWs with a p-n junction is reported. According to the well established light-to-electricity conversion theory, quantum wells (QWs) cannot be used in solar cells and photodetectors because the photogenerated carriers in QWs usually relax to ground energy levels, owing to quantum confinement, and cannot form a photocurrent. We observe directly that more than 95% of the photoexcited carriers escape from InGaN/GaN QWs to generate a photocurrent, indicating that the thermionic emission and tunneling processes proposed previously cannot explain carriers escaping from QWs. We show that photoexcited carriers can escape directly from the QWs when the device is under working conditions. Our finding challenges the current theory and demonstrates a new prospect for developing highly efficient solar cells and photodetectors.
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Received: 16 August 2016
Revised: 28 September 2016
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Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11574362, 61210014, and 11374340) and the Innovative Clean-energy Research and Application Program of Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, China (Grant No. Z151100003515001). |
Corresponding Authors:
Hong Chen
E-mail: hchen@iphy.ac.cn
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Haiyan Wu(吴海燕), Ziguang Ma(马紫光), Yang Jiang(江洋), Lu Wang(王禄), Haojun Yang(杨浩军), Yangfeng Li(李阳锋), Peng Zuo(左朋), Haiqiang Jia(贾海强), Wenxin Wang(王文新), Junming Zhou(周钧铭), Wuming Liu(刘伍明), Hong Chen(陈弘) Direct observation of the carrier transport process in InGaN quantum wells with a pn-junction 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 117803
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