Bright luminescence from indirect and strongly bound excitons in hBN

Abstract

A quantitative analysis of the excitonic luminescence efficiency in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is carried out by cathodoluminescence in the ultraviolet range and compared with zinc oxide and diamond single crystals. A high quantum yield value of ~50% is found for hBN at 10 K comparable to that of direct bandgap semiconductors. This bright luminescence at 215 nm remains stable up to room temperature, evidencing the strongly bound character of excitons in bulk hBN. Ab initio calculations of the exciton dispersion confirm the indirect nature of the lowest-energy exciton whose binding energy is found equal to 300 meV, in agreement with the thermal stability observed in luminescence. The direct exciton is found at a higher energy but very close to the indirect one, which solves the long debated Stokes shift in bulk hBN.

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