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Phys. Rev. B 66, 045208 (2002) [15 pages]

Atomistic description of the electronic structure of InxGa1-xAs alloys and InAs/GaAs superlattices

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Kwiseon Kim, P. R. C. Kent, and Alex Zunger
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401

C. B. Geller
Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, West Mifflin, Pennsylvania 15122

Received 12 March 2002; published 30 July 2002

We show how an empirical pseudopotential approach, fitted to bulk and interfacial reference systems, provides a unified description of the electronic structure of random alloys (bulk and epitaxial), superlattices, and related complex systems. We predict the composition and superlattice-period dependence of the band offsets and interband transitions of InAs/GaAs systems on InP and GaAs substrates.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.66.045208
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.66.045208
PACS:
71.20.Nr, 71.15.-m