Electronic structure of rare-earth impurities in GaAs and GaN

Details Electronic structure of rare-earth impurities in GaAs and GaN Electronic structure of rare-earth impurities in GaAs and GaN

2006-03-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603288v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

12 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.74.165204

The electronic structures of substitutional rare-earth (RE) impurities in GaAs and cubic GaN are calculated. The total energy is evaluated with the self-interaction corrected local spin density approximation, by which several configurations of the open 4f shell of the rare-earth ion may be investigated. The defects are modelled by supercells of type REGa$_{n-1}$As$_n$, for n=4, 8 and 16. The preferred defect is the rare-earth substituting Ga, for which case the rare-earth valency in intrinsic material is found to be trivalent in all cases except Ce and Pr in GaN. The 3+ --> 2+ f-level is found above the theoretical conduction band edge in all cases and within the experimental gap only for Eu, Tm and Yb in GaAs and for Eu in GaN. The exchange interaction of the rare-earth impurity with the states at both the valence band maximum and the conduction band minimum is weak, one to two orders of magnitude smaller than that of Mn impurities. Hence the coupling strength is insufficient to allow for ferromagnetic ordering of dilute impurities, except at very low temperatures.

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