TY - JOUR
KW - paper
AU - Maurizia Palummo
AU - Lucia Reining
AU - RW Godby
AU - CM BERTONI
AU - N BORNSEN
AB - We present the results of a calculation for the bulk electronic structure of gallium nitride in the zincblende phase. We determine the equilibrium lattice constant, the cohesive energy and the bulk modulus in the Density Functional approach within the Local Density Approximation (DFT-LDA). The one-particle eigenvalues of the DFT Kohn-Sham equation do in principle not agree with the experimental band structure. Therefore, we calculate the quasi-particle energies by including self-energy corrections to the DFT-LDA exchange correlation potential, with the GW approximation for the electron self-energy. We use norm-conserving pseudopotentials and a large plane-wave basis set (100 Ry cut-off) for a converged calculation in the DFT-LDA. The LDA band gap turns out to be very sensitive to the crystal volume. We find that GW corrections to the LDA band gap are significant. A detailed comparison with other DFT-LDA results and approximate GW calculations and with existing experimental data is given.
BT - Europhysics Letters
CY - Z I DE COURTABOEUF AVE 7 AV DU HOGGAR, BP 112, 91944 LES ULIS CEDEX, FRANCE
DA - JUN 10
M1 - 8
N2 - We present the results of a calculation for the bulk electronic structure of gallium nitride in the zincblende phase. We determine the equilibrium lattice constant, the cohesive energy and the bulk modulus in the Density Functional approach within the Local Density Approximation (DFT-LDA). The one-particle eigenvalues of the DFT Kohn-Sham equation do in principle not agree with the experimental band structure. Therefore, we calculate the quasi-particle energies by including self-energy corrections to the DFT-LDA exchange correlation potential, with the GW approximation for the electron self-energy. We use norm-conserving pseudopotentials and a large plane-wave basis set (100 Ry cut-off) for a converged calculation in the DFT-LDA. The LDA band gap turns out to be very sensitive to the crystal volume. We find that GW corrections to the LDA band gap are significant. A detailed comparison with other DFT-LDA results and approximate GW calculations and with existing experimental data is given.
PB - EDITIONS PHYSIQUE
PP - Z I DE COURTABOEUF AVE 7 AV DU HOGGAR, BP 112, 91944 LES ULIS CEDEX, FRANCE
PY - 1994
SP - 607
EP - 612
T2 - Europhysics Letters
TI - Electronic-structure of cubic GAN with self-energy corrections
VL - 26
ER -