TY - JOUR
T1 - Calcium as a nonradiative recombination center in InGaN
AU - Shen, Jimmy-Xuan
AU - Wickramaratne, Darshana
AU - Dreyer, Cyrus E.
AU - Alkauskas, Audrius
AU - Young, Erin
AU - Speck, James S.
AU - Van de Walle, Chris G.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: J.S., D.W., and C.V.d.W were supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES) under Award No. DE-SC0010689. A.A. was supported by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action of the European Union (Project Nitride-SRH, Grant No. 657054). E.Y. and J.S.S. were supported by the KACST-KAUST-UCSB Solid State Lighting Program. Additional support was provided by the National Science Foundation IMI Program (Grant No. DMR08-43934). Computational resources were provided by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, which is supported by the DOE Office of Science under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.
PY - 2017/1/13
Y1 - 2017/1/13
N2 - Calcium can be unintentionally incorporated during the growth of semiconductor devices. Using hybrid functional first-principles calculations, we assess the role of Ca impurities in GaN. Ca substituted on the cation site acts as a deep acceptor with a level ~1 eV above the GaN valence-band maximum. We find that for Ca concentrations of 1017 cm−3, the Shockley–Read–Hall recombination coefficient, A, of InGaN exceeds 106 s−1 for band gaps less than 2.5 eV. A values of this magnitude can lead to significant reductions in the efficiency of light-emitting diodes.
AB - Calcium can be unintentionally incorporated during the growth of semiconductor devices. Using hybrid functional first-principles calculations, we assess the role of Ca impurities in GaN. Ca substituted on the cation site acts as a deep acceptor with a level ~1 eV above the GaN valence-band maximum. We find that for Ca concentrations of 1017 cm−3, the Shockley–Read–Hall recombination coefficient, A, of InGaN exceeds 106 s−1 for band gaps less than 2.5 eV. A values of this magnitude can lead to significant reductions in the efficiency of light-emitting diodes.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/623519
UR - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.7567/APEX.10.021001
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85011650075&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.7567/apex.10.021001
DO - 10.7567/apex.10.021001
M3 - Article
SN - 1882-0778
VL - 10
SP - 021001
JO - Applied Physics Express
JF - Applied Physics Express
IS - 2
ER -