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Donor states in modulation-doped Si/SiGe heterostructures
We present a unified approach for calculating the properties of shallow
donors inside or outside heterostructure quantum wells. The method allows us to
obtain not only the binding energies of all localized states of any symmetry,
but also the energy width of the resonant states which may appear when a
localized state becomes degenerate with the continuous quantum well subbands.
The approach is non-variational, and we are therefore also able to evaluate the
wave functions. This is used to calculate the optical absorption spectrum,
which is strongly non-isotropic due to the selection rules. The results
obtained from calculations for Si/SiGe quantum wells allow us to
present the general behavior of the impurity states, as the donor position is
varied from the center of the well to deep inside the barrier. The influence on
the donor ground state from both the central-cell effect and the strain arising
from the lattice mismatch is carefully considered.Comment: 17 pages, 10 figure
Electronic Tunneling and Electric Domains in GaAs/AlAs Superlattices at Room Temperature
Electronic Tunneling and Electric Domains in GaAs/AlAs Superlattices at Room Temperature
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Dielectric mismatch and central-cell corrections in doped silicon nanodots
The effect of the central-cell corrections on the shallow donor states in Si
spherical quantum dot is studied within the effective mass approximation.
Finite step-like spatial confining potential, Coulomb and image charge
potentials arising from the dielectric mismatch at the interface of the
media are taken into account. We found that it is possible to tune the
impurity energies by varying the dot radius and dielectric constant of the
barrier material. In the strong confinement regime, due to the enhanced
weight of the donor wave functions on the impurity atoms, large values of
the chemical shifts for typical donors in Si compared to the ones in bulk
are obtained. The calculated size-dependence of the effective Bohr radius in
donor doped nanocrystals is in reasonable accord with electron spin
resonance measurements on Si quantum dots embedded in insulating glass
matrices. We conclude that both the dielectric mismatch and central-cell
corrections must be considered in the study of these systems in order to
obtain satisfactory agreement with experimental data