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Theoretical and experimental studies of electronic band structure for GaSb1−xBix in the dilute Bi regime
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Polak, M. P., Scharoch, P., Kudrawiec, R., Kopaczek, J., Winiarski, M. J., Linhart, M., Rajpalke, Mohana K., Yu, K. M., Jones, T. S. (Tim S.), Ashwin, M. J. and Veal, T. D. (Tim D.) (2014) Theoretical and experimental studies of electronic band structure for GaSb1−xBix in the dilute Bi regime. Journal of Physics D : Applied Physics, Volume 47 (Number 35). Article number 355107. doi:10.1088/0022-3727/47/35/355107 ISSN 0022-3727.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/47/35/355107
Abstract
Photoreflectance (PR) spectroscopy was applied to study the band gap in GaSb1−xBix alloys with Bi < 5%. Obtained results have been interpreted in the context of ab initio electronic band structure calculations in which the supercell (SC) based calculations are joined with the alchemical mixing (AM) approximation applied to a single atom in the cell. This approach, which we call SC-AM, allows on the one hand to study alloys with a very small Bi content, and on the other hand to avoid limitations characteristic of a pure AM approximation. It has been shown that the pure AM does not reproduce the GaSb1−xBix band gap determined from PR while the agreement between experimental data and the ab initio calculations of the band gap obtained within the SC-AM approach is excellent. These calculations show that the incorporation of Bi atoms into the GaSb host modifies both the conduction and the valence band. The shift rates found in this work are respectively −26.0 meV per % Bi for the conduction band and 9.6 meV per % Bi for the valence band that consequently leads to a reduction in the band gap by 35.6 meV per % Bi. The shifts found for the conduction and valence band give a ~27% (73%) valence (conduction) band offset between GaSb1−xBix and GaSb. The rate of the Bi-related shift for the split-off band is −7.0 meV per % Bi and the respective increase in the spin–orbit split-off is 16.6 meV per % Bi.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Chemistry | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Physics D : Applied Physics | ||||||
| Publisher: | IOP Publishing | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0022-3727 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 15 August 2014 | ||||||
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| Volume: | Volume 47 | ||||||
| Number: | Number 35 | ||||||
| Article Number: | Article number 355107 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1088/0022-3727/47/35/355107 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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