Title: A molecular theoretic approach to GaN

Authors: F.S. Al-Hazmi, Khursheed Athar Siddiqui, Ali Zain Hamed Al-Zahrani

Addresses: Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. ' Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. ' Department of Physics, University of Exeter, Exeter, England, UK

Abstract: Gallium nitride is one of the most important semi-conductor material and a possible candidate for nano-electronic devices. Gallium nitride layers are getting importance towards the possible application for nanotechnology. A molecular theoretic approach is given here for the band structure calculations of gallium nitride structures. One of the main objectives of this work is to study the excitation of surface plasmon and to show how surface plasmon can be exploited by the experimentalists to understand the properties of nanomaterials.

Keywords: gallium nitride; surface plasmon; semiconductor materials; nanoelectronics; nanomaterials; nanotechnology; molecular theory.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNBM.2009.027739

International Journal of Nano and Biomaterials, 2009 Vol.2 No.1/2/3/4/5, pp.425 - 430

Published online: 08 Aug 2009 *

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