Research Article

Barrier Thickness and Hydrostatic Pressure Effects on Hydrogenic Impurity States in Wurtzite GaN/AlxGa1−xN Strained Quantum Dots

Table 1

Lattice constant (in units of nm), effective mass (in units of a free-electron mass ), piezoelectric constants and (in units of C/m2), and deformation potentials , , , and (in units of eV) for GaN and AlN.


GaN0.3189a0.18a0.2a−0.44b0.67b−4.09c−8.87c−7.02c3.65c
AlN0.3112a0.25a0.33a−0.53b1.50b−3.39c−11.81c−9.42c4.02c

Reference [14], bReference [28], and cReference [18].