I will present a new ultrafast time-resolved photoluminescence technique using two-photon absorption detection (TPAD). In this femtosecond photoluminescence (PL) experiment the PL dynamics are monitored by focusing the PL signal and an ultrafast gate pulse on a GaN photodiode with nonlinear properties. Specifically, after sample excitation with a femtosecond excitation pulse the emitted photons from the sample and the gate pulse couple together to create electron hole pairs with the combined photon energy (two-photon absorption) in the high bandgap photodiode. The bandgap of the photodiode is large enough that linear absorption of the PL or the gate pulse is negligible. Techniques with a time resolution in the femtosecond range provide insight into dynamic processes including charge and energy relaxation, recombination and transfer. Following the discussion of the TPAD experiments I will give an overview of already existing time-resolved PL techniques which will allow to compare the performance of the presented technique with these techniques.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UMASS/oai:scholarworks.umass.edu:theses-1601 |
| Date | 01 January 2010 |
| Creators | Boge, Robert |
| Publisher | ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst |
| Source Sets | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014 |
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