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Experimental evidence for pressure-induced first order transition in cerium nitride from B1 to B10 structure type

Here, the crystal structure of CeN was investigated up to pressures of 82 GPa, using diamond anvil cell powder X-ray diffraction in two experiments with He and Si-oil as the pressure transmitting media. In contrast to previous reports, we do not observe the B2 (CsCl type) structure at high pressure. Instead, the structural phase transition, starting at 65 GPa, from the ambient rock salt B1 structure results in a distorted CsCl-like B10 structure, irrespective of the pressure medium. Our result unambiguously confirms two recent density functional theory (DFT) studies predicting the B10 phase to be stable at these pressures, rather than the B2 (CsCl type) phase previously reported. The B10 structure appears to approach the B2 structure as pressure is increased further, but DFT calculations indicate that an L1 0 structure (AuCu type) is energetically favored

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Gain comparison in polar and nonpolar/ semipolar gallium-nitride-based laser diodes

Experimental gain spectra at continuous-wave (CW) operation of laser diodes (LDs) fabricated from c-plane, nonpolar and semipolar GaN-based materials emitting in violet, blue and green spectral regions are presented. Gain spectra were obtained using the Hakki–Paoli method at high resolution. The ability of the setup to resolve the sharp Fabry–Perot longitudinal peaks of the lasers at all injection currents allowed us to accurately measure the current density to reach transparency on the devices characterized in this work, and determine both total losses and differential modal gain curves up to threshold. We present a comparison of transparency current density and modal gain for nonpolar and c-plane LDs in violet and blue regions. The main parameters for the analysis are the internal electric fields (for c-plane lasers), hole effective masses and valence band splittings. In a preliminary analysis, we investigated the gain spectrum of semipolar green LDs and observed a significantly lower total linewidth (homogeneous plus inhomogeneous) than reported elsewhere, which seems to indicate that inhomogeneous broadening is not the main issue governing the evolution toward high performance green LDs.

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