CMOS-integrated aluminum nitride MEMS: A review

RMR Pinto, V Gund, RA Dias… - Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aluminum nitride (AlN) has gained wide interest owing to its high values of elastic modulus,
band gap, dielectric strength, resistivity, thermal conductivity and acoustic velocities …

Electron small polarons and bipolarons in LiNbO3

OF Schirmer, M Imlau, C Merschjann… - Journal of Physics …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
An overview of the properties of electron small polarons and bipolarons is given, which can
occur in the congruently melting composition of LiNbO 3 (LN). Such polarons influence the …

Pockels modulation in integrated nanophotonics

M Thomaschewski, SI Bozhevolnyi - Applied Physics Reviews, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Electro-optic modulators provide the electrical control of the intensity, frequency, and phase
of an optical signal. They became an indispensable part of our telecommunication network …

Urbach tail and bandgap analysis in near stoichiometric LiNbO3 crystals

R Bhatt, I Bhaumik, S Ganesamoorthy… - … status solidi (a), 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Energy of the indirect and direct optical bandgap of near‐stoichiometric lithium niobate
(nSLN) crystals is evaluated by optical absorption measurement. The value of the indirect …

Post density functional theoretical studies of highly polar semiconductive Pb(TiNi)O solid solutions: Effects of cation arrangement on band gap

GY Gou, JW Bennett, H Takenaka, AM Rappe - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
We use a combination of conventional density functional theory (DFT) and post-DFT
methods, which include the local density approximation plus Hubbard U (LDA+ U), PBE0 …

Lithium niobate -cut, -cut, and -cut surfaces from ab initio theory

S Sanna, WG Schmidt - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2010 - APS
Density-functional theory calculations of the LiNbO 3 (2 1¯ 1¯ 0),(1 1¯ 00), and (0001)
surfaces, commonly referred to as X, Y, and Z cuts, are presented. In case of the Z cut, we …

Do we know the band gap of lithium niobate?

C Thierfelder, S Sanna, A Schindlmayr… - … status solidi c, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Given the vast range of lithium niobate (LiNbO3) applications, the knowledge about its
electronic and optical properties is surprisingly limited. The direct band gap of 3.7 eV for the …

Energy band gap and optical properties of lithium niobate from ab initio calculations

S Mamoun, AE Merad, L Guilbert - Computational materials science, 2013 - Elsevier
The electronic and optical properties of stoichiometric lithium niobate are calculated from
first principles within the Generalized Gradient Approximation (GGA). The band gap is found …

Fermi energy, electrical conductivity, and the energy gap of

N Bein, B Kmet, T Rojac, AB Golob, B Malič… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
The energy of the valence band maximum of NaNbO 3 is determined from the Schottky
barrier heights at the contacts with low work function Sn-doped In 2 O 3 and high work …

Theoretical Investigation of Ta2O5, TaON, and Ta3N5: Electronic Band Structures and Absolute Band Edges

ZH Cui, H Jiang - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2017 - ACS Publications
Early transition metal oxides, nitrides, and oxynitrides have attracted a great deal of interest
because of their potential applications in photovoltaics and photocatalysis. In this work, a …