Energy Scales of Compositional Disorder in Alloy Semiconductors

The study of semiconductor alloys is currently experiencing a renaissance. Alloying is often used to tune the material properties desired for device applications. It allows, for instance, to vary in broad ranges the band gaps responsible for the light absorption and light emission spectra of the mat...

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Published in:ACS omega 2022-12, Vol.7 (50), p.45741-45751
Main Authors: Baranovskii, Sergei D., Nenashev, Alexey V., Hertel, Dirk, Gebhard, Florian, Meerholz, Klaus
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Language:English
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Mini-Review
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Summary:The study of semiconductor alloys is currently experiencing a renaissance. Alloying is often used to tune the material properties desired for device applications. It allows, for instance, to vary in broad ranges the band gaps responsible for the light absorption and light emission spectra of the materials. The price for this tunability is the extra disorder caused by alloying. In this mini-review, we address the features of the unavoidable disorder caused by statistical fluctuations of the alloy composition along the device. Combinations of material parameters responsible for the alloy disorder are revealed, based solely on the physical dimensions of the input parameters. Theoretical estimates for the energy scales of the disorder landscape are given separately for several kinds of alloys desired for applications in modern optoelectronics. Among these are perovskites, transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers, and organic semiconductor blends. While theoretical estimates for perovskites and inorganic monolayers are compatible with experimental data, such a comparison is rather controversial for organic blends, indicating that more research is needed in the latter case.
ISSN:2470-1343
2470-1343
DOI:10.1021/acsomega.2c05426