Theoretical and experimental study of kinetics of photoexcited carriers in wide band gap semiconductors

We present a theoretical and experimental study of the subpicosecond kinetics of photo-excited carriers in the wide band gap semiconductors GaN and ZnO. In the theoretical model, interaction with a photo-excitation laser pulse is treated coherently and a generalized Monte Carlo simulation is used to account for scattering and dephasing. The scattering mechanisms included are carrier interactions with polar optical phonons and acoustic phonons, and carrier-carrier Coulomb interactions. For comparison, experimental time-resolved photoluminescence studies on GaN and ZnO samples are performed over a range of temperatures and excitation powers.