Effects of piezoelectricity and spontaneous polarization on electronic and optical properties of wurtzite III–V nitride quantum wells
- 15 December 2001
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 90 (12) , 6210-6216
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1413714
Abstract
A theoretical model accounting for the macropolarization effects in wurtzite III–V nitrides quantum wells (QWs) is presented. Energy dispersions and exciton binding energies are calculated within the framework of effective-mass theory and variational approach, respectively. Exciton-associated transitions (EATs) are studied in detail. An energy redshift as high as 450 meV is obtained in Al0.25GaN0.75/GaN QWs. Also, the abrupt reduction of optical momentum matrix elements is derived as a consequence of quantum-confined Stark effects. EAT energies are compared with recent photoluminescence (PL) experiments and numerical coherence is achieved. We propose that it is the EAT energy, instead of the conduction–valence-interband transition energy that is comparable with the PL energy. To restore the reduced transition rate, we apply an external electric field. Theoretical calculations show that with the presence of the external electric field the optical matrix elements for EAT increase 20 times.This publication has 36 references indexed in Scilit:
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