Excitonic properties of strained wurtzite and zinc-blende GaN/Al(x)Ga(1-x)N quantum dots

Details Excitonic properties of strained wurtzite and zinc-blende GaN/Al(x)Ga(1-x)N quantum dots Excitonic properties of strained wurtzite and zinc-blende GaN/Al(x)Ga(1-x)N quantum dots

2003-10-15

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310363v1

J. Appl. Phys. 94, 7178 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

18 pages, accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Physics

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1623330

We investigate exciton states theoretically in strained GaN/AlN quantum dots with wurtzite (WZ) and zinc-blende (ZB) crystal structures, as well as strained WZ GaN/AlGaN quantum dots. We show that the strain field significantly modifies the conduction and valence band edges of GaN quantum dots. The piezoelectric field is found to govern excitonic properties of WZ GaN/AlN quantum dots, while it has a smaller effect on WZ GaN/AlGaN, and very little effect on ZB GaN/AlN quantum dots. As a result, the exciton ground state energy in WZ GaN/AlN quantum dots, with heights larger than 3 nm, exhibits a red shift with respect to the bulk WZ GaN energy gap. The radiative decay time of the red-shifted transitions is large and increases almost exponentially from 6.6 ns for quantum dots with height 3 nm to 1100 ns for the quantum dots with height 4.5 nm. In WZ GaN/AlGaN quantum dots, both the radiative decay time and its increase with quantum dot height are smaller than those in WZ GaN/AlN quantum dots. On the other hand, the radiative decay time in ZB GaN/AlN quantum dots is of the order of 0.3 ns, and is almost independent of the quantum dot height. Our results are in good agreement with available experimental data and can be used to optimize GaN quantum dot parameters for proposed optoelectronic applications.

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