Formation Energy and Electronic Structure of II-VI/IV Semiconductor Superlattices |
| C. Jędrzejek, J. Konior Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Reymonta 4, 30-059 Kraków, Poland and S. Kaprzyk Institute of Physics and Nuclear Techniques, Technical University AGH, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-060 Kraków, Poland |
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| We calculate formation energy and electronic structure of ultrathin (001)II-VI/IV semiconductor superlattices using the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker all-electron method. Formation energies (∆H) are 2.18 eV for (Ge2)1(ZnSe)1 and 1.50 eV for (ZnS)1(Si2)1. The results of this work are significantly different from these by Ferraz and Srivastava who obtained ∆H = 0.88 eV for (001)(Ge2)1(ZnSe)1 and moreover the one-layer super-lattices are metallic, which confirms the results by Ohno and Ito. The large formation energies surely lead to interfacial instability. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.87.349 PACS numbers: 73.20.Dx |