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Creating wide band gap LEDs without P-doping

Agarwal, Sapan; Dickerson, Jeramy; Tsao, Jeffrey Y.

Wide band gap semiconductors like AlN typically cannot be efficiently p-doped: acceptor levels are far from the valence band-edge, preventing holes from activating. This means that pn-junctions cannot be created, and the semiconductor is less useful, a particular problem for deep Ultraviolet (UV) optoelectronics.