A theoretical study of ELNES spectra of AlxGa1-xN using Wien2k and Telnes programs

Several aspects of the modelling of the energy loss near edge structure (ELNES) using the Wien2k code and the Telnes program are discussed in this paper. A comparison of spectra calculated by an older Telnes.1 version and a recently released Telnes.2 program was carried out and some differences in the N K-edge ELNES were found. Subsequently, a case study with ground state, partial and full core-hole calculations of wurtzite AlN was performed and the results were compared with experimental transmission electron microscopy data. A good agreement with the experimental observations was obtained for the full core-hole case with a 2×2×1 supercell. Preliminary results on a compositional study of AlxGa1-xN are discussed.