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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik
HL 51: Nitrides: Preparation and Characterization
HL 51.4: Vortrag
Freitag, 31. März 2023, 10:15–10:30, POT 112
Theoretical study on the (Al,Sc)N random alloy — •Jan M. Waack1,2, Markus Kremer1,2, Michael Czerner1,2, and Christian Heiliger1,2 — 1Institut für theoretische Physik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany — 2Center for Materials Research (LaMa), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany
Aluminium scandium nitride (AlxSc1−xN, (Al,Sc)N or AlScN) is an random alloy. As such, the calculation of physical properties requires specific methods such as the coherent potential approximation (CPA)[1] and special quasi-random structures (SQS)[2]. We compare the CPA in the framework of the atomic sphere approximation (ASA) Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker (KKR) density functional theory (DFT) with the SQS using the plane-wave pseudopotential DFT to calculate the lattice parameters and electronic band structures of the face-centered cubic phase of AlxSc1−xN (with 0 ≤ x ≤ 1).
Using the low computational cost LDA-1/2 quasiparticle method [3] to calculate the electronic band structures within SQS and CPA, we present the first implementation of LDA-1/2 within the KKR DFT. We find that both the lattice parameter and the indirect band gap deviate from Vegard’s law.
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[2] A. Zunger, S.-H. Wei, L. G. Ferreira, and J. E. Bernard, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 353 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.353
[3] L. G. Ferreira, M. Marques, and L. K. Teles, Phys. Rev. B 78, 125116 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.78.125116