Interface Effect on the Impurity State in a GaN/Ga1-xAlxN Quantum Dot under Pressure
paper|更新时间:2020-08-12
|
Interface Effect on the Impurity State in a GaN/Ga1-xAlxN Quantum Dot under Pressure
Chinese Journal of LuminescenceVol. 30, Issue 4, Pages: 529-534(2009)
作者机构:
1. 内蒙古大学 物理科学与技术学院,内蒙古 呼和浩特,010021
2. 内蒙古师范大学 物理与电子信息学院,内蒙古 呼和浩特,010022
3. 内蒙古农业大学 理学院,内蒙古 呼和浩特,010018
作者简介:
基金信息:
DOI:
CLC:O471.3
Received:13 November 2008,
Revised:02 January 1900,
Published Online:30 August 2009,
Published:30 August 2009
稿件说明:
移动端阅览
ZHANG Min, YAN Zu-wei. Interface Effect on the Impurity State in a GaN/Ga1-xAlxN Quantum Dot under Pressure[J]. Chinese journal of luminescence, 2009, 30(4): 529-534.
DOI:
ZHANG Min, YAN Zu-wei. Interface Effect on the Impurity State in a GaN/Ga1-xAlxN Quantum Dot under Pressure[J]. Chinese journal of luminescence, 2009, 30(4): 529-534.DOI:
Interface Effect on the Impurity State in a GaN/Ga1-xAlxN Quantum Dot under Pressure
Semiconductor structures with quantum confinement have shown interesting behavior. In recent years
the physical properties of quantum heterostructures composed of the group-III nitrides semiconductors with wide-band-gaps
such as AlN
GaN and InN
as well as their ternary compounds
have been widely stu-died arising from their promising application in short-wavelength electroluminescence devices.The high pressure
high electric-field
intense magnetic-field become the powerful tools to explore the property of material. Some authors investigated the effects of electric field and hydrostatic pressure on donor binding energies in a GaAs quantum dot. Some authors calculated the ground-state binding energies for a hydrogenic impurity in a spherical quantum dot within a uniform magnetic field. How ever
However
few studies focused interface effect and hydrostatic pressure on zinc-blende nitride quantum dots. As the periodicity of the host semiconductor is lost
or when the impurity potential varies too rapidly over an effective Bohr radius the effective mass approximation is not reliable.In the present work
a modified variational method within the simplified coherent potential approximate was adopted to investigate the impurity state binding energies of GaN/Ga
1-x
Al
<
/em
>
xN infinite barrier spherical shape quantum dot by using a triangular potential to approximate the interface potential. Considering the hydrostatic pressure and a position dependent mass
the relations among the impurity binding energies
the hydrostatic pressure
quantum dot radius and the electron areal density were calculated. The result indicated that the binding energies of impurity state nearly linearly increase with pressure. It also showed that the influence of conductive band bending and the position dependent effective mass should not be neglected. As the quantum dot radius is smaller
the binding energies are not affected by conductive band bending. With the increasing of the quantum dot size
the binding energies increase gradually with it. For a given hydrostatic pressure and Al component
the electron areal density n
s
strengthens the band bending of the interface to increase the binding energy.
关键词
Keywords
references
. Oyoko H O, Duque C A, Porras-Montenegro N. Uniaxial stress dependence of the binding energy of shallow donor impurities in GaAs(Ga,Al)As quantum dots [J]. J. Appl. Phys., 2001, 90 (2):819-823.
. Rosas R, Marin J L, Riera R. Hydrogenic impurities in spherical quantum dots in a magnetic field [J]. J. Appl. Phys., 2001, 90 (5):2333-2337.
. Zhang M, Ban S L. Impurity states in semiconductor GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs heterojunction with an external magnetic field [J]. Chin. J. Lumin. (发光学报), 2004, 25 (4):369-374 (in Chinese).
. Oshiro K, Akai K, Matsuura M. Exciton-optical phonon interaction in a spherical quantum dot embedded in nonpolar matrix [J]. Phys. Rev. B, 2002, 66 (15):153308-1-4.
. Kohn W. Shallow impurity states in silicon and germanium [J]. Solid State Phys., 1957, 5 :257-320.
. Qi X H, Kong X J, Liu J J. Effect of aspatially dependent effective mass on the hydrogenic impurity binding energy in a finite parabolic quantum well [J]. Phys. Rev. B, 1998, 58 (16):10578-10582.
. Rajashabala S, Navaneethakrishnan K. Effective masses for donor binding energies in quantum well systems [J]. Mod. Phys. Lett. B, 2006, 20 (24):1529-1541.
. Sing J. Quantum Mechanics [M]. A.Wiley-Inter Science Publication: John Wiley & Sons INC, 1997.
. Perlin P, Mattos L, Shapiro N A, et al. Reduction of the energy gap pressure coefficient of GaN due to the constraining presence of the sapphire substrate [J]. J. Appl. Phys., 1999, 85 (4):2385-2389.
. Vinet P, Ferrante J, Smith J R, et al. A universal equation of state for solids [J]. J. Phys. C, 1986, 19 (20):L467-L473.
. Christensen N E, Gorczyca I. Optical and structural properties of Ⅲ-V nitrides under pressure [J]. Phys. Rev. B, 1994, 50 (7):4397-4415.
. Goi A R, Syassen K, Cardona M. Effect of pressure on the refractive index of Ge and GaAs [J]. Phys. Rev. B, 1990, 41 (14):10104-10110.
. Wagner J M, Bechstedt F. Pressure dependence of the dielectric and lattice-dynamical properties of GaN and AlN [J]. Phys. Rev. B, 2000, 62 (7):4526-4534.
. Ban S L, Hasbun J E. Interface polarons in a realistic heterojunction potential [J]. Eur. Phys. J. B, 1999, 8 (3):453-461.
. Christensen N E, Gorczyca I. Optical and structural properties of Ⅰ -Ⅲ nitrides under pressure [J]. Phys. Rev. B, 1994, 50 (7):4397-4415.
. Fan W J, Li M F, Chong T C. Electronic properties of zinc-blende GaN,AlN and their alloys Ga1-xAlxN [J]. J. Appl. Phys., 1996, 79 (1):188-194.
. Vurgaftman I, Meyer J R, Ram-Mohan L R. Band parameters for Ⅲ-Ⅴ compound semiconductors and their alloys [J]. J. Appl. Phys., 2001, 89 (11):5815-5874.
. Karch K, Bechstedt F, Pletl T. Lattice dynamics of GaN: Effects of 3d electrons [J]. Phys. Rev. B, 1997, 56 (7):3560-3563.
. Karch K, Bechstedt F. Ab initio lattice dynamics of BN and AlN: Covalent versus ionic forces [J]. Phys. Rev. B, 1997, 56 (12):7404-7415.