Vegard's law deviation in band gaps and bowing parameters of the wurtzite III-nitride ternary alloys

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5628, Issue , 2005, Pages 296-305

  Liou, Bo Ting ^a   Yen, Sheng Horng ^b   Kuo, Yen Kuang ^b  

^a HSIUPING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Band gap bowing parameter; III nitride semiconductor; Lattice constant; Vegard's law

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LATTICE CONSTANTS; LIGHTING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

BAND GAP BOWING PARAMETER; III-NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; VEGARD'S LAW; WIDE-BAND GAP;

NITRIDES;

EID: 18944398444     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.575300     Document Type: Conference Paper

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