phonons of In x Ga 1− x N and to evaluate the role of lateral compositional fluctuations and
in-depth strain/composition gradients on the frequency of the A 1 (LO) bands. For this
purpose, we have performed visible and ultraviolet Raman measurements on a set of high-
quality epilayers grown by molecular beam epitaxy with In contents over a wide composition
range (0.25< x< 0.75). While the as-measured A 1 (LO) frequency values strongly deviate …