Influence of the exchange reaction on the electronic structure of GaN/Al junctions

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1998-06-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9806377v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

Latex-file, 3 figures. to appear on Phys.Rev.B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.58.7906

Ab-initio calculations have been used to study the influence of the interface morphology and, notably, of the exchange reaction on the electronic properties of Al/GaN (100) interfaces. In particular, the effects of interface structure (i.e. interfacial bond lengths, semiconductor surface polarity, and reacted intralayers) on the SBH at the Al/GaN (001) junction are specifically addressed. The electronic structure of the following atomic configurations have been investigated theoretically: (i) an abrupt, relaxed GaN/Al interface; (ii) an interface which has undergone one monolayer of exchange reaction; and interfaces with a monolayer-thick interlayer of (iii) AlN and (iv) Ga$_{0.5}$Al$_{0.5}$N. Intermixed interfaces are found to pin the interface Fermi level at a position not significantly different from that of an abrupt interface. Our calculations also show that the interface band line--up is not strongly dependent on the interface morphology changes studied. The p-type SBH is reduced by less than 0.1 eV if the GaN surface is Ga-terminated compared to the N-terminated one. Moreover, we show that both an ultrathin Ga$_x$Al$_{1-x}$N ($x$ = 0, 0.5) intralayer and a Ga$\leftrightarrow$Al atomic swap at the interface does not significantly affect the Schottky barrier height.

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