First-principles calculations of bismuth induced changes in the band structure of dilute Ga–V–Bi and In–V–Bi alloys: chemical trends versus experimental data

MP Polak, P Scharoch… - … Science and Technology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Bi-induced changes in the band structure of Ga–V–Bi and In–V–Bi alloys are calculated
within the density functional theory (DFT) for alloys with Bi≤ 3.7% and the observed …

Influence of Bi-related impurity states on the bandgap and spin–orbit splitting energy of dilute III–V-Bi alloys: InP1− xBix, InAs1− xBix, InSb1− xBix and GaSb1− xBix

DP Samajdar, S Dhar - Superlattices and Microstructures, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Valence Band Anticrossing (VBAC) Model is used to calculate the changes in band
structure of Bi containing alloys such as InP 1− x Bi x, InAs 1− x Bi x, InSb 1− x Bi x and …

Structural and electronic properties of III-V bismuth compounds

M Ferhat, A Zaoui - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2006 - APS
We have performed ab initio self-consistent calculations based on the full potential linear
augmented plane-wave method with the generalized gradient approximation to investigate …

Electronic structure of BAs and boride III-V alloys

GLW Hart, A Zunger - Physical Review B, 2000 - APS
Boron arsenide, the typically ignored member of the Group-III–V arsenide series BAs-AlAs-
GaAs-InAs is found to resemble silicon electronically: its Γ conduction-band minimum is p …

Calculation of Valence Band Structure and Band Dispersion in Indium containing III–V Bismides by k⋅ p method

DP Samajdar, TD Das, S Dhar - Computational Materials Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Valence band anticrossing (VBAC) model has been used to explain the strong reduction in
band gap as well as the increase in spin–orbit splitting energy with increasing bismuth …

Theoretical and experimental studies of electronic band structure for GaSb1− xBix in the dilute Bi regime

MP Polak, P Scharoch, R Kudrawiec… - Journal of Physics D …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Photoreflectance (PR) spectroscopy was applied to study the band gap in GaSb 1− x Bi x
alloys with Bi< 5%. Obtained results have been interpreted in the context of ab initio …

How do electronic properties of conventional III–V semiconductors hold for the III–V boron bismuth BBi compound?

D Madouri, M Ferhat - physica status solidi (b), 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We have performed ab‐initio self‐consistent calculations using the full potential linear
augmented plane wave method to investigate the structural and the electronic properties of …

Similar and dissimilar aspects of semiconductors containing versus

Y Zhang, A Mascarenhas, LW Wang - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2005 - APS
We show through band structure calculations that III-V-Bi alloys, emerging as a new class of
semiconductor materials, differ nontrivially from their counterparts III-VN alloys which have …

Configuration dependence of band-gap narrowing and localization in dilute alloys

LC Bannow, O Rubel, SC Badescu, P Rosenow… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Anion substitution with bismuth (Bi) in III-V semiconductors is an effective method for
experimental engineering of the band gap E g at low Bi concentrations (≤ 2%), in particular …

Bismuth alloying in GaAs: a first-principles study

D Madouri, A Boukra, A Zaoui, M Ferhat - Computational Materials Science, 2008 - Elsevier
We present a theoretical study mainly devoted to the investigation of the bowing parameter
in the GaAs1–xBix alloy. Results reveal that the fundamental band gap for GaAs is close to …