Auger Recombination in GaAs from First Principles

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 643-646

  Steiauf, Daniel ^a   Kioupakis, Emmanouil ^a,b   Van De Walle, Chris G ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Auger recombination; density functional theory; efficiency droop; electron phonon coupling; gallium arsenide; phonons

Indexed keywords

AUGER ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; AUGERS; ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONS; ENERGY GAP; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM;

AUGER RECOMBINATION; EFFICIENCY DROOPS; ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; ELECTRON PHONON COUPLINGS; FIRST PRINCIPLES; FIRST PRINCIPLES METHOD; INDIRECT PROCESS; PHONON ASSISTED PROCESS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84925859376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500119q     Document Type: Article

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