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Abstract

The electrostatic potential associated to the interface oscillation modes in nitride-based heterostructure is calculated with the use of a complete phenomenological electroelastic continuum approach for the long wave optical oscillations, and the Surface Green Function Matching technique. The crystalline symmetries of zincblende and - isotropically averaged - wurtzite are both considered in the sets of input bulk frequencies and dielectric constants.

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Dr. Miguel Mora-Ramos

Dr. Rolando Perez-Alvarez

Prof. Victor Velasco