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Hydrostatic pressure and electric field effects on the normalized binding energy in asymmetrical quantum wells
We have investigated the simultaneous effects of the
hydrostatic pressure and electric field on the ground subband level and on
normalized binding energy of an on-center donor in asymmetrical GaAs/AlGaAs
quantum wells within the effective-mass approximation and a variational
approach. We found that the well size at which the impurity energy changes
from positive to negative value (turning point) strongly depends on the
asymmetry and hydrostatic pressure. As a key result, we suggest that the
study of the normalized binding energy for various values of the electric
field in direct and inverse polarization regimes can be used to feel the
quantum well asymmetry and to unambiguously find out the effective pressure
acting on a given heterostructure