The free-carrier screening of macroscopic polarization fields in wurtzite GaN/InGaN quantum well lasers is investigated via a self-consistent tight-binding approach. We show that the high carrier concentrations found experimentally in nitride laser structures effectively screen the built-in spontaneous and piezoelectric polarization fields, thus inducing a "field-free'' band profile. Our results explain some heretofore puzzling experimental data on nitride lasers, such as the unusually high lasing excitation thresholds and emission blue shifts for increasing excitation levels. (C) 1999 American Institute of Physics. [S0003-6951(99)00314-9].

Free-carrier screening of polarization fields in wurtzite GaN/InGaN laser structures

BERNARDINI, FABIO;FIORENTINI, VINCENZO;
1999-01-01

Abstract

The free-carrier screening of macroscopic polarization fields in wurtzite GaN/InGaN quantum well lasers is investigated via a self-consistent tight-binding approach. We show that the high carrier concentrations found experimentally in nitride laser structures effectively screen the built-in spontaneous and piezoelectric polarization fields, thus inducing a "field-free'' band profile. Our results explain some heretofore puzzling experimental data on nitride lasers, such as the unusually high lasing excitation thresholds and emission blue shifts for increasing excitation levels. (C) 1999 American Institute of Physics. [S0003-6951(99)00314-9].
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