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The stable and metastable configurations of interstitial Mg in GaN and its migration energy barriers are studied from first-principles calculations. In addition to the conventional octahedral (O, global energy minimum) and tetrahedral (T,…
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A Gallium interstitial defect (Ga$_{\textrm{i}}$) is thought to be responsible for the spectacular spin-dependent recombination (SDR) in GaAs$_{1-x}$N$_x$ dilute nitride semiconductors. Current understanding associates this defect with two…
Cation site disorder provides a degree of freedom in the growth of ternary nitrides for tuning the technologically relevant properties of a material system. For example, the band gap of ZnGeN$_2$ changes when the ordering of the structure…
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A predicted type-II staggered band alignment with an approximately $1.4 eV$ valence band offset at the $ZnGeN_2/GaN$ heterointerface has inspired novel band-engineered $III-N/ZnGeN_2$ heterostructure-based device designs for applications in…
We perform hybrid-density functional calculations to investigate the charged defect formation energy of native point defects in $Mg_2 Si$, $Mg_2 Sn$, and their solid solutions. The band gap correction by hybrid-density functional is found…
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Using hybrid density functional theory, we address point defects susceptible to cause charge compensation upon Mg doping of GaN. We determine the free energy of formation of the nitrogen vacancy and of several Mg-related defects. The…
We have investigated the effects of hydrostatic pressure and compressive biaxial strain on the $\Gamma$-point energy states of GaN and InN with zincblende crystal structure via first-principles DFT+HSE06 computation. To correctly reproduce…
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The hydrogen interstitial and the substitutional Al_Zn, Ga_Zn and In_Zn are all shallow donors in ZnO and lead to n-type conductivity. Although shallow donors are expected to repel each other, we show by first principles calculations that…
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