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Carbon Defects As Sources Of The Green And Yellow Luminescence Bands In Undoped Gan, Michael A. Reshchikov, Denis Demchenko, A. Usikov, H. Helava, Yu Makarov

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In high-purity GaN grown by hydride vapor phase epitaxy, the commonly observed yellow luminescence (YL) band gives way to a green luminescence (GL) band at high excitation intensity. We propose that the GL band with a maximum at 2.4 eV is caused by transitions of electrons from the conduction band to the 0/+ level of the isolated CN defect. The YL band, related to transitions via the −/0 level of the same defect, has a maximum at 2.1 eV and can be observed only for some high-purity samples. However, in less pure GaN samples, where no GL band is observed, …