Band offset and electronic properties at semipolar plane AlN( )/diamond heterointerface*

Project supported by the Scholarship Council of China (Grant No. 201508340047), the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 2016M601993), the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Anhui Province, China (Grant No. 2017B215), and the Anhui Province University Outstanding Talent Cultivation Program, China (Grant No. gxfxZD2016077).

Wu Kong-Ping, Ma Wen-Fei, Sun Chang-Xu, Chen Chang-Zhao, Ling Liu-Yi, Wang Zhong-Gen
       

(color online) Planar electrostatic potentials exhibiting lattice plane oscillations for (a) N–AlN( )/HC(100), (b) N–AlN( )/C(100), and (c) Al–AlN( )/C(100), which are filtered out by macroscopic averaging (red dashed line). The valence band tops of diamond and AlN are evaluated with respect to the macroscopic average electrostatic potentials of the strained diamond and AlN, respectively.