Second-order piezoelectricity in wurtzite III-N semiconductors

Joydeep Pal, Geoffrey Tse, Vesel Haxha, Max A. Migliorato, and Stanko Tomić
Phys. Rev. B 84, 085211 – Published 30 August 2011; Erratum Phys. Rev. B 84, 159902 (2011)

Abstract

First- and second-order piezoelectric coefficients for all binary group-III nitride (III-N) wurtzite semiconductors are calculated using ab initio density functional theory. The method used allows the simultaneous determination of spontaneous and strain-induced polarization within the same framework. Although the linear coefficients are similar to all existing values reported in the literature, all spontaneous polarization terms are substantially smaller than the currently proposed values. Second-order coefficients also change the total strain-induced polarization significantly. We compare the predictions obtained using these coefficients with data in superlattice structures comprising binary nitride semiconductors and by including composition dependence with all available experimental data on III-N ternary alloys. We show that, unlike existing models, our calculated piezoelectric coefficients and nonlinear model provide a close match to the internal piezoelectric fields of quantum well and superlattice structures.

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  • Received 8 June 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.085211

©2011 American Physical Society

Erratum

Erratum: Second-order piezoelectricity in wurtzite III-N semiconductors [Phys. Rev. B 84, 085211 (2011)]

Joydeep Pal, Geoffrey Tse, Vesel Haxha, Max A. Migliorato, and Stanko Tomić
Phys. Rev. B 84, 159902 (2011)

Authors & Affiliations

Joydeep Pal, Geoffrey Tse, Vesel Haxha, and Max A. Migliorato*

  • School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Stanko Tomić

  • Joule Physics Laboratory, School of Computing, Sciences and Engineering, University of Salford, United Kingdom

  • * m.migliorato@physics.org

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Vol. 84, Iss. 8 — 15 August 2011

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