Electronic structure induced by lateral composition modulation in GaInAs alloys

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作者：

Mattila, T ^{[1
]}

Bellaiche, L ^{[1
]}

Wang, LW ^{[1
]}

Zunger, A ^{[1
]}

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[1] Natl Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO 80401 USA

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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS | 1998年 / 72卷 / 17期

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10.1063/1.121303

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O59 [应用物理学];

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摘要：

It has been recently shown that growth of [001]-oriented short period (AC)(n)/(BC)(n) vertical superlattices (n similar to 1-2) spontaneously creates a lateral composition modulation in the substrate plane ([110] direction), when wire-like AC-rich and BC-rich domains alternate with a period of similar to 100-200 Angstrom. This creates a new type of lattice structure with orthogonal [001] and [110] strain fields and compositional waves. Using a three-dimensional plane-wave pseudopotential approach, we study here the electronic properties of this type of structure in a GaInAs alloy, predicting valence band splittings into distinctly polarized components, a less than or equal to 100 meV band-gap reduction and strong, type I electron and hole confinement in the In-rich lateral channels. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.

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