“…In particular, heterostructures based on Al x Ga 1−x N/GaN represent the building-blocks for a number of current (opto)electronic devices, including blue and white LEDs [3,4], laser diodes and lasers [5], high-power- [6,7] and highelectron-mobility-transistors (HEMTs) [8,9]. Beside the tunability of the bandgap from the 3.4 eV of GaN to the 6.2 eV in AlN at room temperature, there is between GaN and AlN a 2.5% lattice mismatch, allowing the pseudomorphic growth of Al x Ga 1−x N layers with a biaxial tensile strain on GaN.…”