Effects of strain on the electron effective mass in GaN and AlN
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چکیده
Stress is known to strongly alter the effective mass in semiconductors, changing the mobility of carriers. Transport measurements on AlGaN/GaN heterostructures indicated a large increase in mobility under tensile strain [M. Azize and T. Palacios, J. Appl. Phys. 108, 023707 (2010)]. Using first-principles methods, we calculate the variation of electron effective mass in GaN and AlN under hydrostatic and biaxial stress. Unexpected trends are found, which are explained within k p theory through a variation of the interband momentum matrix elements. The magnitude of the effective-mass reduction is too small to explain the experimentally reported increase in mobility. VC 2013 AIP Publishing LLC. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4801520]
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