GUO Hai-feng, HA Si-hua, ZHU Jun. Eigen-states of Electron and Hole in Strained Quantum Well under External Electric Field[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2010,31(6): 870-876
GUO Hai-feng, HA Si-hua, ZHU Jun. Eigen-states of Electron and Hole in Strained Quantum Well under External Electric Field[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2010,31(6): 870-876DOI:
Eigen-states of Electron and Hole in Strained Quantum Well under External Electric Field
The Schrdinger equations of electron and hole and Poisson equations are solved self-consistently to obtain the ground-state energies on the basis of the numerical computation of ordinary differential equations. The built-in electric field induced by spontaneous and piezoelectric polarization
the screening effect due to the free electron-hole gas and the applied external electric field are considered. For example
a typical GaN/Al
x
Ga
1-
x
N wurtzite nitride strained quantum well is taken to calculate the eigen energies of electron and hole as well as the corresponding eigen-wavefunctions. The results show that the built-in electric field is offset by the electric field applied along the same direction as the growth of quantum well. The bending degree of the well structure is slightly reduced. The electron or hole wave function then moves along or away from the electric field direction to the center of the well leading to the increase of wave peak value and decrease of tunneling probability. It is also found that in a fixed external electric field case
the ground-state energy levels of electron and hole in the quantum well significantly decrease with increasing the well width and prominently increase as the Al component increases. That is to say
the external electric field certainly weakens the built-in electric field and the quantum confinement has a significant impact on the electronic (hole) ground-state energy.
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