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metadata.dc.type: | Artigo de Periódico |
Title: | Electronic properties of III-nitride semiconductors: A first-principles investigation using the Tran-Blaha modified Becke-Johnson poten |
Other Titles: | Journal of Applied Physics |
Authors: | Araujo, Rafael B. Almeida, J. Souza de Silva, A. Ferreira da |
metadata.dc.creator: | Araujo, Rafael B. Almeida, J. Souza de Silva, A. Ferreira da |
Abstract: | In this work, we use density functional theory to investigate the influence of semilocal exchange and correlation effects on the electronic properties of III-nitride semiconductors considering zinc-blende and wurtzite crystal structures. We find that the inclusion of such effects through the use of the Tran-Blaha modified Becke-Johnson potential yields an excellent description of the electronic structures of these materials giving energy band gaps which are systematically larger than the ones obtained with standard functionals such as the generalized gradient approximation. The discrepancy between the experimental and theoretical band gaps is then significantly reduced with semilocal exchange and correlation effects. However, the effective masses are overestimated in the zinc-blende nitrides, but no systematic trend is found in the wurtzite compounds. New results for energy band gaps and effective masses of zinc-blende and wurtzite indium nitrides are presented. |
metadata.dc.publisher.country: | Brasil |
metadata.dc.rights: | Acesso Aberto |
URI: | http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/15881 |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
Appears in Collections: | Artigo Publicado em Periódico (FIS) |
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