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Ab initio shallow acceptor levels in gallium nitride

V. Fiorentini, F. Bernardini, A. Bosin, D. Vanderbilt

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/9610045

Abstract

Impurity levels and formation energies of acceptors in wurtzite GaN are predicted ab initio. BeGa is found to be the shallow (thermal ionization energy 0.06 eV); MgGa and ZnGa are mid-deep acceptors (0.23 eV and 0.33 eV respectively); CaGa and CdGa are deep acceptors (0.65 eV); SiN is a midgap trap with high formation energy; finally, contrary to recent claims, CN is a deep acceptor (0.65 eV). Interstitials and heteroantisites are energetically not competitive with substitutional incorporation.

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