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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 86, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1923187
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Valence-band structures and band alignments at the AlN/SiC interface are studied by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) combined with first-principle calculations. Theoretical valence-band structures of SiC and AlN, and band offsets at their interface, were obtained by plane-wave pseudopotential method within the framework of density functional theory. The conduction- and valence- band offsets determined by XPS are 1.3 and 1.7 eV, respectively, in excellent agreement with the theoretical values. These relatively large band offsets indicate that AlN is suitable as a gate dielectric or a lattice- matched interfacial layer on SiC. (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics.
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