Band structure and fundamental optical transitions in wurtzite AlN
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- 22 December 2003
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 83 (25) , 5163-5165
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1633965
Abstract
With a recently developed unique deep ultraviolet picoseconds time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy system and improved growth technique, we are able to determine the detailed band structure near the Γ point of wurtzite (WZ) AlN with a direct band gap of 6.12 eV. Combined with first-principles band structure calculations we show that the fundamental optical properties of AlN differ drastically from that of GaN and other WZ semiconductors. The discrepancy in energy band gap values of AlN obtained previously by different methods is explained in terms of the optical selection rules in AlN and is confirmed by measurement of the polarization dependence of the excitonic PL spectra.Keywords
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