Mc. Delong et al., PHOTOLUMINESCENCE, PHOTOLUMINESCENCE EXCITATION, AND RESONANT RAMAN-SPECTROSCOPY OF DISORDERED AND ORDERED GA0.52IN0.48P, Journal of applied physics, 73(10), 1993, pp. 5163-5172
Ordering in the CuPt structure is known to significantly reduce the ba
nd gap of Ga0.52In0.48P as well as induce a number of unusual details
in its optical properties, including long, excitation-intensity-depend
ent lifetimes and an excitation-intensity-dependent emission energy. W
e report photoluminescence (PL), photoluminescence excitation (PLE), a
nd resonant Raman measurements performed on ordered and disordered Ga0
.52In0.48P. The dominant high energy emission process at low temperatu
re in disordered Ga0.52In0.48P is established to be excitonic, but the
exciton trapping energy is not unique. PLE from ordered Ga0.52In0.48P
shows significant tailing of electronic states into the band gap and
a ''band edge' which depends on detection energy. The dominant radiati
ve process in ordered Ga0.52In0.48P is not excitonic. A large increase
in the Stokes shift between the absorption edge (band gap) and PL emi
ssion peak occurs when the material orders. Hence, low temperature PL
is determined to be a particularly poor measure of band gap. Resonant
Raman scattering is used to study optical phonons and their coupling t
o electronic states. We find that the resonance enhancement at the ban
d edge occurs via localized excitons.