First-principles study of spontaneous polarization and band gap bowing in Sc xAl yGa 1 x yN alloys lattice-matched to GaN

Semiconductor Science and Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Shimada, Kazuhiro ^a   Takouda, Masahiro ^a   Hashiguchi, Yuuki ^a   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 CONFIGURATION; BAND GAP ENERGY; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDY; GAP BOWING; LATTICE-MATCHED; MOLE FRACTION; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; PSEUDOPOTENTIAL PLANE-WAVE METHOD; SPONTANEOUS POLARIZATIONS; VEGARD'S LAW;

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

GALLIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84866312943     PISSN: 02681242     EISSN: 13616641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0268-1242/27/10/105014     Document Type: Article

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