Non-linear piezoelectricity in zinc blende GaAs and InAs semiconductors
Author(s) -
Geoffrey Tse,
Joydeep Pal,
Umberto Monteverde,
Raghav Garg,
V. Haxha,
M. A. Migliorato,
Stanko Tomić
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of applied physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.699
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1089-7550
pISSN - 0021-8979
DOI - 10.1063/1.4818798
Subject(s) - piezoelectricity , condensed matter physics , materials science , dipole , piezoelectric coefficient , ab initio quantum chemistry methods , ab initio , physics , quantum mechanics , composite material , molecule
We investigate the strain dependence of piezoelectric effect, both linear and non linear, in zincblende GaAs and InAs semiconductors. We expanded the polarization in terms of the ionic and dipole charges, internal displacement and the exploited the ab-initio Density Functional Theory (DFT) to evaluate the dependence of all quantities on the strain tensor. By this detailed study of the non linear piezoelectric effect, we report that even third order effects are significant.
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