Band offset of GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs heterojunctions from atomistic first principles

Abstract

Using an atomistic first principles approach, we investigate the band offset of the GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs heterojunctions for the entire range of the Al doping concentration 0<x<=1. We apply the coherent potential approach to handle the configuration average of Al doping and a recently proposed semi-local exchange potential to accurately determine the band gaps of the materials. The calculated band structures of the GaAs, AlAs crystals and band gaps of the GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs alloys, are in very good agreement with the experimental results. We predict that valence band offset of the GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs heterojunction scales with the Al concentration x in a linear fashion as VBO(x)~0.587 x, and the conduction band offset scales with x in a nonlinear fashion. Quantitative comparisons to the corresponding experimental data are made.

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