Native Defects in Wurtzite GaN And AlN
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in MRS Proceedings
Abstract
The results of an extensive theoretical study of native defects in GaN and of vacancies in AlN are presented. We have considered cation and anion vacancies, antisites, and intersti-tials. The computations were carried out using quantum molecular dynamics, in supercells containing 72 atoms. Due to the wide gap of nitrides, the formation energies of defects depend strongly on the position of the Fermi level. The N vacancy in GaN introduces a shallow donor level that may be responsible for the n-type character of as-grown GaN.Other defects introduce deep states in the gap, with strongly localized wave functions.Keywords
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