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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Spin Splitting in Bulk Wurtzite Materials and Their Quantum Wells

Wu, Chieh-lung 01 August 2011 (has links)
The spin-splitting energies in strained bulk wurtzite aluminum nitride (AlN) are studied using the linear combination of atomic orbital method. It is found that strain and crystal field induce not only a linear-k (£\wz ) but also two cubic-k terms (£^¡¦and £f¡¦ ) in the two-band k¡Dp Hamiltonian Hso=(£\wz-£^¡¦k2//+£f¡¦k2z)(£mxky-£mykx)+H0so, where H0so=(-£^0k2//+£f0k2z)(£mxky-£mykx) is for ideal wurtzite and generates a cone-shaped minimum-spin-splitting (MSS) surface. As biaxial strain increases, the shape of the MSS surface changes from a hexagonal hyperboloid of two sheets in unstrained AlN to a hexagonal cone, and eventually becomes a hyperboloid of one sheet. The spin-splitting energies of first conduction band for A-plane and M-plane wurtzite are calculated by the sp3 linear combination of atomic orbital (LCAO). The results show the spin-splitting energies are dominated by linear-k term but contribution of cubic-k terms can not be neglected for larger k//. The parameter of linear-k and cubic-k terms are evaluated from the LCAO calculated spin-splitting energies fitting to two band k¡Ep model as increasing well width. The coefficients of linear-k and cubic-k terms decrease.

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