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Gallium nitride (GaN) has emerged as an essential semiconductor material for energy-efficient lighting and electronic applications owing to its large direct bandgap of 3.4 eV. Present GaN/AlGaN heterostructures seemingly feature an…
Self-assembled GaN nanowires are typically grown on Si substrates with convenient nucleation layers. Light-emitting devices based on arrays of GaN nanowires require that the nucleation layer is electrically conductive and optically…
Light emitters in wide band gap semiconductors are of great fundamental interest and have potential as optically addressable qubits. Here we describe the discovery of a new color center in high-quality hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) with a…
We are the first to report the frequency response and corresponding current density of a wurtzite phase Indium Nitride (InN)-based vertical configuration Gunn diode at 1 \mu m active length. Domain growths dynamics with respect to space and…
Point defects in Ga- and Al-doped ZnO thin films are studied by means of first principles electronic structure calculations. Candidate defects are identified to explain recently observed differences in electrical and spectroscopical…
Rocksalt ScN is a semiconductor with a small lattice mismatch to wurtzite GaN. Within the modern theory of polarization, ScN has a nonvanishing formal polarization along the [111] direction. As a result, we demonstrate that an interface…
Formation of excitonic states in quantum dots of nitride based III-V semiconductors GaN and AlN including coulomb and exchange interactions are investigated. Dark exciton formation is found to occur for both GaN quantum dots(QDs) with…
Gallium nitride (GaN), a wide band-gap semiconductor, has been broadly used in power electronic devices due to its high electron mobility and high breakdown voltage. Its relatively high thermal conductivity makes GaN a favorable material…
Heterostructures of wurtzite based devices have attracted great research interests since the tremendous success of GaN in light emitting diodes (LED) industry. Among the possible heterostructure material candidates, high quality GaN thin…
Wurtzite gallium nitride (GaN) has great potential for high-frequency and high-power applications due to its excellent electrical and thermal transport properties. However, enhancing the performance of GaN-based power electronics relies on…
Germanium-tin (GeSn) photodiodes potentiate a viable solution to integrate SWIR and extended SWIR detection technology into CMOS processing line. However, challenges in the growth of thick, high quality GeSn limit the device absorber…
The Zeeman splitting of the donor spectra in cubic- and hexagonal-GaN are studied using an effective mass theory approach. Soft-core pseudopotentials were used to describe the chemical shift of the different substitutional dopants. The…
Raman measurements are performed on defect-free wurzite GaP nanowires. Resonance Raman measurements are carried out over the excitation energy range between 2.19 and 2.71 eV. Resonances at 2.38 eV and 2.67 eV of the E1(LO) mode and at 2.67…
We determine atomic and electronic structure, formation energy, stability and magnetic properties of native point defects, such as Gallium (Ga) and Nitrogen (N) vacancies in bulk and at non-polar (10$\overline{1}$0) surface of wurtzite…
GaN based high electron mobility transistors show promise in numerous device applications which elicits the need for accurate models of bulk, surface, and interface electronic properties. We detail here a hybrid density functional theory…
Heterostructures comprising uncoated ZnO and coated with thin layers of Ga$_2$O$_3$ were produced using spin-coating and subsequent hydrothermal processing. X-ray diffraction examination verifies the structural integrity of the synthesized…
We demonstrate that GaN formed in a Nanowall Network (NwN) morphology can overcome fundamental limitations in optoelectronic devices, and enable high light extraction and effective Mg incorporation for efficient p-GaN. We report the growth…
By using four layered graphene/gallium nitride (GaN) Schottky diodes with an undoped GaN spacer, we demonstrate highly effective gating of graphene at low bias rendering this type of structure very promising for potential applications. An…
Carbon-doped GaN is a promising material for sub-bandgap triggered optical switches. When incorporated in GaN, carbon introduces deep compensating centers that enable defect-mediated extrinsic photoconductivity. Here, we investigate the…
The wurtzite phase group III-Nitrides (AlN, GaN, InN) have attracted great interest due to their successful applications in the optoelectronics since the 90's. In this paper we perform a comprehensive study of AlN, GaN and InN structural…