External Electric Field Effect on Hydrogenic Donor Impurity in Zinc-Blende InGaN Quantum Dot
JIANG Li-Ming1, WANG Hai-Long1, WU Hui-Ting1, GONG Qian2, FENG Song-Lin2
1College of Physics and Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 2731652Key Laboratory of Wireless Sensor Network and Communication, Shanghai Institute of Micro-system and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050
External Electric Field Effect on Hydrogenic Donor Impurity in Zinc-Blende InGaN Quantum Dot
JIANG Li-Ming1, WANG Hai-Long1, WU Hui-Ting1, GONG Qian2, FENG Song-Lin2
1College of Physics and Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 2731652Key Laboratory of Wireless Sensor Network and Communication, Shanghai Institute of Micro-system and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050
摘要The binding energy of a hydrogenic donor impurity in zinc-blende (ZB) InGaN quantum dot (QD) is calculated in the framework of effective-mass envelope-function theory using the plane wave basis. It is shown that the donor binding energy is highly dependent on the impurity position, QD size and the external electric field. The symmetry of the electron probability distribution is broken and the maximum of the donor binding energy is shifted from the centre of QD in the presence of the external electric field. The degenerating energy levels for symmetrical positions with respect to the centre of QD are split. The splitting increases with the increase of QD height while the splitting increases up to a maximum value and then decreases with the increase of QD radius.
Abstract：The binding energy of a hydrogenic donor impurity in zinc-blende (ZB) InGaN quantum dot (QD) is calculated in the framework of effective-mass envelope-function theory using the plane wave basis. It is shown that the donor binding energy is highly dependent on the impurity position, QD size and the external electric field. The symmetry of the electron probability distribution is broken and the maximum of the donor binding energy is shifted from the centre of QD in the presence of the external electric field. The degenerating energy levels for symmetrical positions with respect to the centre of QD are split. The splitting increases with the increase of QD height while the splitting increases up to a maximum value and then decreases with the increase of QD radius.
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