On the origin of the 265 nm absorption band in AlN bulk crystals

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Collazo, Ramón ^a   Xie, Jinqiao ^b   Gaddy, Benjamin E ^a   Bryan, Zachary ^a   Kirste, Ronny ^a   Hoffmann, Marc ^a   Dalmau, Rafael ^b   Moody, Baxter ^b   Kumagai, Yoshinao ^c   Nagashima, Toru ^d   Kubota, Yuki ^d   Kinoshita, Toru ^d   Koukitu, Akinori ^c   Irving, Douglas L ^a   Sitar, Zlatko ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b HexaTech Inc   (United States)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d TOKUYAMA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; AL-RICH ALGAN; ALN; ALN BULK CRYSTAL; DEEP ULTRAVIOLET; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE;

CARBON; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; SUBSTRATES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ALUMINUM NITRIDE;

EID: 84862095056     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4717623     Document Type: Article

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