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- Buyanova, Irina A., et al.
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Optical and electronic properties of GaInNP alloys - a new material system for lattice matching to GaAs
- 2008
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Ingår i: Physica Status Solidi (a) applications and materials science. - : Wiley. - 1862-6300 .- 1862-6319. ; 205:1, s. 101-106
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we will review our recent results from optical characterization studies of GaInNP. We will show that N incorporation in these alloys affects their structural and defect properties, as well as the electronic structure. The main structural changes include (i) increasing carrier localization due to strong compositional fluctuations, which is typical for all dilute nitrides, and (ii) N-induced long range ordering effects, specific for GaInNP. The observed degradation of radiative efficiency of the alloys upon increasing N content is attributed to formation of several defects acting as centres of efficient non-radiative recombination. One of the defects is identified as a complex involving a Ga interstitial atom. N incorporation is also found to change the band line up from the type I in the GaInP/GaAs structures to the type 11 in the GaInNP/GaAs heterojunctions with [N] > 0.5%. For the range of N compositions studied ([N] <= 2%), a conduction band offset at the GaInNP/GaAs interface is found to nearly linearly depend on [N] at -0.10 eV/%, whereas the valence band offset remains unaffected. (c) 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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- Carva, Karel, et al.
(författare)
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Spin-mixing conductances : The influence of disorder
- 2008
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Ingår i: Physica status solidi A, Applications and materials science. - : Wiley. - 1862-6300. ; 205:8, s. 1805-1808
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Spin transfer torque exerted on a magnetic layer can be viewed as a linear response to the spin accumulation inside an adjacent non-magnetic layer, information about their response coefficient is provided by the complex spin-mixing conductance C-mix. Substitutional disorder is known to affect the spin-dependent charge conductances and often reduces strongly the magnetoresistance. Here, we examine its impact on C-mix of several selected realistic systems. Recently predicted oscillations of C-mix as a function of ferromagnetic layer thickness in Ni based junctions might be suppressed by interface interdiffusion, but presented ab initio calculations disprove this possibility. Halfmetallic character of the Heusler compound Co(2)Mnsi is destroyed by often encountered antisite disorder; however the impact of this disorder to the predicted C-mix is rather weak. Diluted magnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As is an intrinsically disordered system the analysis of calculations shows that the variation of C-mix with substitutional Mn content can be understood in terms of the associated change of the number of carriers, whereas the variation with lattice defects is more complex.
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- Carvalho, Alexandra, et al.
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Light induced degradation in B doped Cz-Si solar cells
- 2012
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Ingår i: Physica Status Solidi (a) applications and materials science. - : Wiley. - 1862-6300 .- 1862-6319. ; 209:10, s. 1894-1897
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We analyse the formation energy of interstitial boron (Bi) and the properties of the defect resulting from its association with an oxygen dimer (BiO2i) to evaluate the possibility that it may be the slow-forming centre responsible for the light-induced degradation of B-doped Si solar cells. However, we find that the formation energy of Bi is too high, and therefore its concentration is negligible. Moreover, we find that the lowest energy form of BiO2i is a shallow donor, and the deep donor form is high in energy. Lowest energy structure of the BiO2i defect.
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| 14. |
- Carvalho, Alexandra, et al.
(författare)
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P-doping of Si nanoparticles : the effect of oxidation
- 2012
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Ingår i: Physica Status Solidi (a) applications and materials science. - : Wiley. - 1862-6300 .- 1862-6319. ; 209:10, s. 1847-1850
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The radial dependence of the formation energy of substitutional phosphorus in silicon nanoparticles covered by an amorphous oxide shell is analysed using local density functional theory calculations. It is found that P+ is more stable at the silicon core. This explains the experimental observation of segregation of phosphorus to the Si-rich regions in a material consisting of Si nanocrystals embedded in a SiO2 matrix [Perego et al., Nanotechnology 21, 025602 (2010)]. Formation energy of positively charged substitutional phosphorus in a 1.5 nm diameter Si nanoparticle covered by a ∼2 nm-thick amorphous SiO2 shell, as a function of its distance to the centre.
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- Chen, Ding-Yuan, et al.
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Impact of the Channel Thickness on Electron Confinement in MOCVD-Grown High Breakdown Buffer-Free AlGaN/GaN Heterostructures
- 2023
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Ingår i: Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science. - : Wiley. - 1862-6319 .- 1862-6300. ; 220:16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The 2D electron gas (2DEG) confinement on high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) heterostructures with a thin undoped GaN channel layer on the top of a grain-boundary-free AlN nucleation layer is studied. This is the first time demonstration of a buffer-free epi-structure grown with metal-organic chemical vapor deposition with thin GaN channel thicknesses, ranging from 250 to 150 nm, without any degradation of the structural quality and 2DEG properties. The HEMTs with a gate length of 70 nm exhibit good DC characteristics with peak transconductances of 500 mS mm(-1) and maximum saturated drain currents above 1 A mm(-1). A thinner GaN channel layer improves 2DEG confinement because of the enhanced effectiveness of the AlN nucleation layer acting as a back-barrier. An excellent drain-induced barrier lowering of only 20 mV V-1 at a V-DS of 25 V and an outstanding critical electric field of 0.95 MV cm(-1) are demonstrated. Good large-signal performance at 28 GHz with output power levels of 2.0 and 3.2 W mm(-1) and associated power-added efficiencies of 56% and 40% are obtained at a V-DS of 15 and 25 V, respectively. These results demonstrate the potential of sub-100 nm gate length HEMTs on a buffer-free GaN-on-SiC heterostructure.
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| 16. |
- Chey, Chan Oeurn, et al.
(författare)
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Fast synthesis, morphology transformation, structural and optical properties of ZnO nanorods grown by seed-free hydrothermal method
- 2014
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Ingår i: Physica Status Solidi (a) applications and materials science. - : Wiley. - 1862-6300 .- 1862-6319. ; 211:11, s. 2611-2615
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A fast and low cost seed-free hydrothermal synthesis method to synthesize zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods with controllable morphology, size and structure has been developed. Ammonia is used to react with water to tailor the ammonium hydroxide concentration, which provides a continuous source of OH− for hydrolysis and precipitation of the final products. Hence, allowing ZnO nanorods to growth on large areas of metal (Au and Ag coated glass), p-type Si and organic flexible (PEDOT: PSS) substrates. Increasing the growth time, the morphology transforms from pencil-like to hexagonal shape rod-like morphology. Within one hour the length of the ZnO nanorods has reached almost 1 µm. The optical characteristics has shown that the grown ZnO nanorods are dominated by two emission peaks, one is in the UV range centered at 381 nm and other one with relatively high intensity appears in the visible range and centered at 630 nm. While the growth duration was increased from 2 h to 6 h, the optical band gap was observed to increase from 2.8 eV to 3.24 eV, respectively. This fast and low cost method is suitable for LEDs, UV-photodetector, sensing, photocatalytic, multifunctional devices and other optoelectronic devices, which can be fabricated on any substrates, including flexible and foldable substrates.
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| 17. |
- Chulapakorn, Thawatchart, 1988-, et al.
(författare)
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Impact of H-uptake by forming gas annealing and ion implantation on photoluminescence of Si-nanoparticles
- 2018
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Ingår i: Physica Status Solidi (a) applications and materials science. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1862-6300 .- 1862-6319. ; 215:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Silicon nanoparticles (SiNPs) are formed by implanting 70 keV Si+ into a SiO2-film and subsequent thermal annealing. SiNP samples are further annealed in forming gas. Another group of samples containing SiNP is implanted by 7.5 keV H+ and subsequently annealed in N2-atmosphere at 450 °C to reduce implantation damage. Nuclear reaction analysis (NRA) is employed to establish depth profiles of the H-concentration. Enhanced hydrogen concentrations are found close to the SiO2surface, with particularly high concentrations for the as-implanted SiO2. However, no detectable uptake of hydrogen is observed by NRA for samples treated by forming gas annealing (FGA). H-concentrations detected after H-implantation follow calculated implantation profiles. Photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy is performed at room temperature to observe the SiNP PL. Whereas FGA is found to increase PL under certain conditions, i.e., annealing at high temperatures, increasing implantation fluence of H reduces the SiNP PL. Hydrogen implantation also introduces additional defect PL. After low-temperature annealing, the SiNP PL is found to improve, but the process is not found equivalently efficient as conventional FGA.
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| 18. |
- Darakchieva, Vanya
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Infrared generalized ellipsometry on non-polar and superlattice group-III nitride films : Strain and phonon anisotropy
- 2008
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Ingår i: Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials. - : Wiley. - 1862-6300. ; 205:4, s. 905-913
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This contribution reviews the application of generalized infrared spectroscopic ellipsometry (GIRSE) to studies of optical phonons in heteroepitaxial wurtzite GaN films with a-plane orientation and c-plane Al(Ga)N/GaN superlattices. We demonstrate the capability of GIRSE to detect spectrally narrow dichroism, caused by anisotropic strain in non-polar oriented films thereby allowing a precise location of the phonon mode resonances for different polarizations. A distinct correlation between anisotropic strain components, which have been independently asessed by high-resolution X-ray diffraction, and phonon frequencies reveal the phonon deformation potentials. Further, GIRSF is shown to be a valuable tool in identification of superlattice phonon modes and their character. The frequency shifts of the superlattice modes with respect to the strain-free positions are analyzed versus strain and composition in order to assess the mode suitability for estimation of strain, polarization doping, and composition for the individual layers in complex device heterostructures. © 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
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- Diplas, Spyros, et al.
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Materials for Energy Harvesting
- 2018
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Ingår i: Physica Status Solidi (a) applications and materials science. - : WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH. - 1862-6300 .- 1862-6319. ; 215:17
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