Subpicosecond time-resolved Raman spectroscopy has been used to measure the lifetime of the LO phonon mode in GaN for photoexcited electron-hole pair density ranging from . The lifetime has been found to decrease from , at low density, to , at the highest density. The experimental findings should help resolve the recent controversy over the lifetime of LO phonon mode in GaN.
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