Optical phonons and electron–phonon interaction in quantum wells consisting of mixed crystals

2000 ◽  
Vol 87-89 ◽  
pp. 626-628
Author(s):  
Ruisheng Zheng ◽  
Mitsuru Matsuura
Author(s):  
А.Ю. Маслов ◽  
О.В. Прошина

Abstract The specific features of the interaction of charged particles with polar optical phonons have been studied theoretically for quantum wells with the barriers that are asymmetric in their dielectric properties. It is shown that the interaction with interface phonon modes makes the greatest contribution in narrow quantum wells. The parameters of the electron-phonon interaction were found for the cases of different values of the phonon frequencies in the barrier materials. It turned out that a significant (by almost an order of magnitude) change in the parameters of the electron-phonon interaction can occur in such structures. This makes it possible, in principle, to trace the transition from weak to strong interactions in quantum wells of the same type but with different compositions of barrier materials. The conditions are found under which an enhancement of the electron-phonon interaction is possible in an asymmetric structure in comparison with a symmetric one with the barriers of the same composition.


2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (22) ◽  
pp. 2991-2999 ◽  
Author(s):  
FENG-QI ZHAO ◽  
ZI-ZHENG GUO

The free polaron energy levels in finite GaAs / Al x Ga 1-x As parabolic quantum wells have been investigated by a modified variational method. The effect of the electric field, the electron-phonon interaction including the longitudinal optical phonons and the four branches of interface optical phonons, and the effect of spatial dependent effective mass have been considered in the calculation. The dependence of the energies of free polarons on the alloy composition x is given. The numerical results for finite GaAs / Al x Ga 1-x As parabolic quantum wells are obtained and discussed. The results show that the effect of the electric field and the interface optical phonons as well as the longitudinal optical phonons on the energy levels is obvious. One can find that the effect of the spatially dependent effective masses on the energy levels in finite parabolic quantum wells is considerable except for large well width. Thus, the electron-phonon interaction and the effect of the spatially dependent effective mass should not be neglected for the study of the electron state problem in finite parabolic quantum wells.


1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Ruf ◽  
Keith Wald ◽  
Peter Y. Yu ◽  
K.T. Tsen ◽  
H. Morkoç ◽  
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2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (27) ◽  
pp. 5337-5343
Author(s):  
XIAOYAN ZHANG ◽  
JINGFENG WANG ◽  
GUOLIANG FAN

The properties of long wavelength optical phonons in mixed crystals AB 1-x C x is discussed by a model similar to Modified Random Element Isodisplacement (MREI). Using this method we investigate the frequencies, the dielectric functions, and the reflectivity of several mixed crystals. It is found that this model can be applied to the one-mode behavior, the two-mode behavior, and that of the third category. So the model provides a possible way to understand the optical character of the ternary mixed crystal. Based on it, we can discuss other problems similar to electron–phonon interaction and so on.


2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (15) ◽  
pp. 1650182
Author(s):  
Junhua Hou ◽  
Yunpeng Fan

The electron–phonon (e–p) interaction in three-dimensional (3D), two-dimensional (2D) and one-dimensional (1D) ternary mixed crystals is studied. The e–p interaction Hamiltonians including the unit cell volume variation in ternary mixed crystals are obtained by using the modified random-element-isodisplacement model and Born–Huang method. The polaronic self-trapping energy and renormalized effective mass of GaAs[Formula: see text]Sb[Formula: see text], GaP[Formula: see text]As[Formula: see text] and GaP[Formula: see text]Sb[Formula: see text] compounds are numerically calculated. It is confirmed theoretically that the nonlinear variation of the self-trapping energy and effective mass with the composition is essential and the unit cell volume effects cannot be neglected except the weak e–p coupling. The dimensional effect cannot also be ignored.


2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (12) ◽  
pp. 1617-1621 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Yu. Maslov ◽  
O. V. Proshina

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