This article was presented as part of Symposium G, "Gallium Nitride and Related Alloys" at the 1998 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society held in Boston, Massachusetts, November 30-December 4.

Abstract

We present a theoretical analysis of the gain characteristics of InGaN/AlGaN quantum dot (QD) lasers. We calculate the elastic strain distribution caused by the lattice mismatch between the QD and the barrier using an original method which takes into account the hexagonal symmetry of the structure's elastic properties. The method is based on an analytical derivation of the Fourier transform of the strain tensor. The proposed approach is combined with a plane-wave expansion method to calculate the carrier spectrum and wave functions. The many-body gain of a laser containing a periodic array of QDs is calculated using the Padé approximation. We show that band gap reduction and the Coulomb enhancement of the interband transition probability can significantly modify the gain spectrum in InGaN/AlGaN QD lasers.

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Cite this article as: MRS Internet J. Nitride Semicond. Res. 4S1, G6.45 (1999).

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