Trends in the electronic structure of dilute nitride alloys

EP O'Reilly, A Lindsay, PJ Klar… - Semiconductor …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The band-anticrossing (BAC) model has been widely applied to analyse the electronic
structure of dilute nitride III-VN alloys such as GaN x As 1− x. The BAC model describes the …

Unification of the band anticrossing and cluster-state models of dilute nitride semiconductor alloys

A Lindsay, EP O'Reilly - 2004 - cora.ucc.ie
We show that a quantitative description of the conduction band in Ga (In) NAs is obtained by
combining the experimentally motivated band anticrossing model with detailed calculations …

Alloy scattering of -type carriers in

S Fahy, A Lindsay, H Ouerdane, EP O'reilly - Physical Review B, 2006 - APS
A tight-binding model of the electronic structure of substitutional nitrogen in GaAs, together
with a variational description of quasilocalized nitrogen-induced electronic states near the …

Theory of the electronic structure of dilute nitride alloys: beyond the band-anti-crossing model

EP O'Reilly, A Lindsay, S Fahy - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
We use an sp 3 s* tight-binding Hamiltonian to investigate the band-anti-crossing (BAC)
model for dilute GaN x As 1− x alloys. The BAC model describes the strong band-gap …

Direct measurement and analysis of the conduction band density of states in diluted alloys

L Ivanova, H Eisele, MP Vaughan, P Ebert, A Lenz… - Physical Review B, 2010 - APS
We use scanning tunneling spectroscopy to show directly that the conduction band density
of states (DOS) of GaAs 1− x N x with low nitrogen (N) content x is enhanced about 0.5 eV …

Hydrogen Incorporation in III‐N‐V Semiconductors: From Macroscopic to Nanometer Control of the Materials' Physical Properties

R Trotta, A Polimeni, M Capizzi - Advanced Functional …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of hydrogen incorporation in dilute nitride semiconductors, specifically GaAs1‐
xNx, are discussed. The remarkable consequences of hydrogen irradiation include tuneable …

Electron mass in dilute nitrides and its anomalous dependence on hydrostatic pressure

G Pettinari, A Polimeni, F Masia, R Trotta, M Felici… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
The dependence of the electron mass on hydrostatic pressure P in N-diluted GaAs 1− x N x
(x= 0.10% and 0.21%) is investigated by magnetophotoluminescence. Exceedingly large …

Hydrogen diffusion in

R Trotta, D Giubertoni, A Polimeni, M Bersani… - Physical Review B, 2009 - APS
Hydrogen (or deuterium) incorporation in dilute nitride semiconductors modifies dramatically
the electronic and structural properties of the crystal through the creation of nitrogen …

Bound exciton states of isoelectronic centers in GaAs: N grown by an atomically controlled doping technique

T Kita, O Wada - Physical Review B, 2006 - APS
We have studied bound exciton states of isoelectronic centers of nitrogen-doped GaAs by
photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. The nitrogen doping has been performed in an …

Breakup of the conduction band structure of dilute alloys

A Patanè, J Endicott, J Ibanez, PN Brunkov, L Eaves… - Physical Review B, 2005 - APS
Using a combination of optical, electrical, and magnetotunneling measurements on resonant
tunneling diodes incorporating a Ga As 1− y N y quantum well, we demonstrate that the …