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| author | Zhou, Junjie Wang, Shanshan Huang, Menglin Gong, Xin-Gao Chen, Shiyou |
| author_facet | Zhou, Junjie Wang, Shanshan Huang, Menglin Gong, Xin-Gao Chen, Shiyou |
| contents | As a typical nonradiative multiphonon transition in semiconductors, carrier capture at defects is critical to the performance of semiconductor devices. Its transition rate is usually calculated using the equal-mode approximation, which assumes that phonon modes and frequencies remain unchanged before and after the transition. Using the carbon substitutional defect ($\text{C}_\text{N}$) in GaN as a benchmark, here we demonstrate that the phonon renormalization can be significant during defect relaxation, which causes errors as large as orders of magnitude in the approximation. To address this issue, we consider (i) Duschinsky matrix connecting the initial-state and final-state phonons, which accounts for the changes in phonon modes and frequencies; and (ii) the off-diagonal contributions in total transition matrix element, which incorporates the cross terms of electron-phonon interactions between different modes. With this improvement, the calculated transition rates show agreements with experimental results within an order of magnitude. We believe the present method makes one step forward for the accurate calculation of multiphonon transition rate, especially in cases with large defect relaxations. |
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| spellingShingle | Defect Phonon Renormalization during Nonradiative Multiphonon Transitions in Semiconductors Zhou, Junjie Wang, Shanshan Huang, Menglin Gong, Xin-Gao Chen, Shiyou Materials Science As a typical nonradiative multiphonon transition in semiconductors, carrier capture at defects is critical to the performance of semiconductor devices. Its transition rate is usually calculated using the equal-mode approximation, which assumes that phonon modes and frequencies remain unchanged before and after the transition. Using the carbon substitutional defect ($\text{C}_\text{N}$) in GaN as a benchmark, here we demonstrate that the phonon renormalization can be significant during defect relaxation, which causes errors as large as orders of magnitude in the approximation. To address this issue, we consider (i) Duschinsky matrix connecting the initial-state and final-state phonons, which accounts for the changes in phonon modes and frequencies; and (ii) the off-diagonal contributions in total transition matrix element, which incorporates the cross terms of electron-phonon interactions between different modes. With this improvement, the calculated transition rates show agreements with experimental results within an order of magnitude. We believe the present method makes one step forward for the accurate calculation of multiphonon transition rate, especially in cases with large defect relaxations. |
| title | Defect Phonon Renormalization during Nonradiative Multiphonon Transitions in Semiconductors |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04289 |