Spontaneous polarization and band gap bowing in YxAl yGa1-x-yN alloys lattice-matched to GaN

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Shimada, Kazuhiro ^a   Zenpuku, Atsuhito ^a   Fujiwara, Kazuya ^a   Hazu, Kouji ^b   Chichibu, Shigefusa F ^b   Hata, Masahiro ^c   Sazawa, Hiroyuki ^c   Takada, Tomoyuki ^c   Sota, Takayuki ^d  

^a KANTO GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SUMITOMO CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^d WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC GEOMETRY; BAND GAP ENERGY; BAND GAPS; ENERGY BANDGAPS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS; GROUND STATE PROPERTIES; LATTICE-MATCHED; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; SPONTANEOUS POLARIZATIONS; UNIT CELLS;

ALUMINUM; CALCULATIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENERGY GAP; GALLIUM NITRIDE; POLARIZATION; YTTRIUM;

ALLOYS;

EID: 80055003776     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3651154     Document Type: Article

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