Electronic and optical properties of non-polar (1120) a-(¿=0), (1010) m-plane (¿=¿/6), and (1122)-oriented wurtzite (WZ) InGaN/GaN quantum well (QW) structures are investigated using the multiband effective-mass theory. These result are compared with those of (0001)-oriented WZ InGaN/GaN QW structures. The internal field becomes zero for (1122) crystal orientation near the crystal angle of ¿=56°, in addition to a- and m-plane with ¿=90° irrespective of the In composition in the well. This is because the sum of the piezoelectric and spontaneous polarizations in the barrier is equal to that in the well. The optical gain of QW structures with non-polar crystal orientation is significantly larger than that of the (0001)-oriented QW. This is caused mainly by the increase of the optical matrix element due to the disappearance of the internal field. Also, the (1122)-oriented QW is found to have the optical gain comparable to the a- or m-plane QW. In addition, their optical matrix element show strong in-plane anisotropy. The bandgap transition wavelength of the QW structure with the m-plane is found to be longer than that of the QW structures with the a-plane.


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    Title :

    Electronic and optical properties on non-polar InGaN/GaN quantum-well structures


    Contributors:
    Park, S. H. (author) / Kim, D. (author) / Kim, H. M. (author) / Lee, Y. T. (author)


    Publication date :

    2007-06-01


    Size :

    1280918 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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