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[53]. That means the in-plane compressive strain reduces
the indirect bandgap when
the Ge composition increases. However,
for a relaxed Si
1−x
Ge
x
layer, the bandgap
behaves differently. The conduction band minima are
six-fold degenerate in Si
(located along the {100} directions near the X point) and eight-fold degenerate in Ge.
(located at the Brillouin-zone boundary in the {111} directions). The indirect bandgap
at 300 K (4.2 K) decreases monotonically from 1.11 (1.17) to 0.66 (0.74) eV as the Ge
content x increases from 0 to 100%. When x=0.85, the indirect bandgap changes from
the Δ minima to the L minima. That means the band structure of the material is more
Ge like [61-63]. This leads to changes of the optical
and electrical properties, which
affect our design of SiGe/Ge quantum wells for photonic applications.
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