Effect of structural properties on optical characteristics of InGaN/GaN nanocolumns fabricated by selective-area growth

The effect of the structural properties on the optical characteristics was investigated for In0.3Ga0.7N nanocolumns (NCs) grown on GaN NCs as a function of GaN column diameter, D GaN. With increasing D GaN, the photoluminescence spectra changed from single-peak to double-peak emissions at the diameter D 0 where InGaN axial NCs change to InGaN–InGaN core–shell NCs. For the core–shell NCs, the volume recombination probabilities of the InGaN cores did not change with D GaN. Whereas the surface recombination probability of the InGaN cores exponentially decreased because of the spontaneous formation of InGaN shells for D GaN > D 0, it drastically increased for D GaN ≤ D 0.