Piezoelectric properties of Ga2O3: a first-principle study

San-Dong Guo () and Hui-Min Du
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San-Dong Guo: School of Electronic Engineering, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications
Hui-Min Du: School of Electronic Engineering, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2020, vol. 93, issue 1, 1-6

Abstract: Abstract The compounds exhibit piezoelectricity, which demands to break inversion symmetry, and then to be a semiconductor. For Ga2O3, the orthorhombic case (ϵ-Ga2O3) of common five phases breaks inversion symmetry. Here, the piezoelectric tensor of ϵ-Ga2O3 is reported by using density functional perturbation theory (DFPT). To confirm semiconducting property of ϵ-Ga2O3, its electronic structures are studied by using generalized gradient approximation (GGA) and Tran and Blaha’s modified Becke and Johnson (mBJ) exchange potential. The gap value of 4.66 eV is predicted with mBJ method, along with the effective mass tensor for electron at the conduction band minimum (CBM) [about 0.24 m0]. The mBJ gap is very close to the available experimental value. The elastic tensor Cij are calculated by using the finite difference method (FDM), and piezoelectric stress tensor eij are attained by DFPT, and then piezoelectric strain tensor dij are calculated from Cij and eij. In this process, average mechanical properties of ϵ-Ga2O3 are estimated, such as bulk modulus, Shear modulus, Young’s modulus and so on. The calculated dij are comparable and even higher than commonly used piezoelectric materials such as α-quartz, ZnO, AlN and GaN. Graphical abstract

Keywords: Solid; State; and; Materials (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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