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A series of (Ga,In)As/GaAs/Ga(As,Sb) multi-quantum well heterostructures is analyzed using temperature- and power-dependent photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. Pronounced PL variations with sample temperature are observed and analyzed…

Accurate band offsets are essential for predictive continuum modeling of nanostructures such as quantum wells and quantum dots formed in strained Si/Si1-xGex and Ge/Si1-xGex heterostructures. Experimental offset data for these systems…

The quasiparticle band structures of four polytypes 3C, 6H, 4H, and 2H of GaP, GaAs, GaSb, InP, InAs, and InSb are computed with high accuracy including spin-orbit interaction applying a recently developed approximate calculation scheme,…

The band offsets and the chemical bonding at the interfaces between (-201) $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ and Al$_2$O$_3$ polymorphs are studied through hybrid functional calculations. For alumina, we consider four representative phases, i.e.,…

We have used an eight band model to investigate the electronic structures and to calculate the optical matrix elements of InAs-GaSb broken gap semiconductor heterostructures. The unusual hybridization of the conduction band states in InAs…

The band alignment of semiconductor-metal interfaces plays a vital role in modern electronics, but remains difficult to predict theoretically and measure experimentally. For interfaces with strong band bending a main difficulty originates…

Adding a few atomic percent of Bi to III--V semiconductors leads to significant changes in their electronic structure and optical properties. Bismuth substitution on the pnictogen site leads to a large increase in spin-orbit splitting…

h-BN and Ga2O3 are two promising semiconductor materials. However, the band alignment of the Ga2O3/h-BN heterojunction has not been identified, hindering device development. In this study, the heterojunction was prepared by metalorganic…

We have studied the In$_{x}$Ga$_{1-x}$As/In$_{y}$Al$_{1-y}$As (001) interface using first-principles ab-initio pseudopotential calculations, focusing on the effects of alloy composition and strain state on the electronic properties. In…

We have calculated band-edge energies for most combinations of zincblende AlN, GaN, InN, GaP, GaAs, InP, InAs, GaSb and InSb in which one material is strained to the other. Calculations were done for three different geometries, quantum…

An ab initio approach to the calculation of excitonic effects in the optical absorption spectra of semiconductors and insulators is formulated. It starts from a quasiparticle bandstructure calculation and is based on the relevant…

A procedure is presented that combines density functional theory computations of bulk semiconductor alloys with the semiconductor Bloch equations, in order to achieve an ab initio based prediction of the optical properties of semiconductor…

The full set of high-energy spectroscopy measurements including X-ray photoelectron valence band spectra and soft X-ray emission valence band spectra of both components of FeSi (Fe K_beta_5, Fe L_alpha, Si K_beta_1,3 and Si L_2,3) are…

We use many-body perturbation theory, the state-of-the-art method for band gap calculations, to compute the band offsets at the Si/SiO$_2$ interface. We examine the adequacy of the usual approximations in this context. We show that (i) the…

In this work, three InAs/InAs$_{0.65}$Sb$_{0.35}$ superlattices with different periods were investigated using photoluminescence and photoreflectance measurements and their band structure was simulated using a 14 bulk-band kp model. The…

The valence band offsets (VBO) for the \b{eta}-type A3B6 layered compounds depending on the thickness of the crystals have been investigated from the first principles, based on the density functional theory. To simulate the structure of a…

Starting with empirical tight-binding band structures, the branch-point (BP) energies and resulting valence band offsets (VBOs) for the zincblende phase of InN, GaN and AlN are calculated from their k-averaged midgap energy. Furthermore,…

Semiconductor heterostructures capable of separating photogenerated electrons and holes have a wide range of optoelectronic applications, including photodetectors, solar cells, and photocatalysts. ${\beta}$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ and rutile GeO$_2$…

The electrical performance of a tunnel field-effect transistor depends critically on the band offset at their semiconductor heterojunction interface. Historically, it has been difficult to experimentally determine how the electronic bands…

We propose an efficient reduced-order technique for electronic structure calculations of semiconductor nanostructures, suited for inclusion in full-band quantum transport simulators. The model is based on the linear combination of bulk…