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  • quantum size induced electronic transitions in quantum dots indirect Band gap gaas
    Physical Review B, 2008
    Co-Authors: Junwei Luo, Alberto Franceschetti, Alex Zunger
    Abstract:

    We discuss the physical origin of the previously predicted quantum-size-induced electronic transitions in spherical GaAs quantum dots. By using atomistic pseudopotential calculations for freestanding GaAs dots and for GaAs dots embedded in an AlGaAs matrix, we are able to distinguish two types of direct/indirect transitions: (i) in freestanding GaAs dots, the Conduction-Band Minimum changes from $\ensuremath{\Gamma}$-like to $X$-like as the radius of the dot is reduced below 1.6 nm, leading to a direct/indirect transition in reciprocal space. (ii) In GaAs dots embedded in AlAs, the Conduction-Band Minimum changes from dot localized to barrier localized as the radius of the dot is reduced below 4.2 nm, corresponding to a direct-to-indirect transition in real space.

  • L-to-X crossover in the Conduction-Band Minimum of Ge quantum dots
    Physical Review B, 2000
    Co-Authors: F. A. Reboredo, Alex Zunger
    Abstract:

    Screened-pseudopotential calculations of large ((less-or-similar sign)3000 atoms) surface-passivated Ge quantum dots show that below a critical dot diameter that depends on the passivant, the character of the lowest Conduction state changes from an L-derived to an X-derived state. Thus, in this size regime, Ge dots are Si-like. This explains the absence, in a pseudopotential description, of a crossing between the Band gaps of Si and Ge dots as a function of size, predicted earlier in single-valley effective-mass calculations. The predicted L{yields}X crossing suggests that small Ge dots will have an X-like, red shift of the Band gap with applied pressure, as opposed to an L-like blue shift of large dots. (c) 2000 The American Physical Society.

  • Prediction of a strain-induced Conduction-Band Minimum in embedded quantum dots
    Physical Review B, 1998
    Co-Authors: Andrew J. Williamson, Alex Zunger, Andrew Canning
    Abstract:

    Free-standing InP quantum dots have previously been theoretically and experimentally shown to have a direct Band gap across a large range of experimentally accessible sizes. We demonstrated that when these dots are embedded coherently within a GaP barrier material, the effects of quantum confinement in conjunction with coherent strain suggest there will be a critical diameter of dot ({approx}60 {Angstrom}), above which the dot is direct, type I, and below which it is indirect, type II. However, the strain in the system acts to produce another Conduction state with an even lower energy, in which electrons are localized in small pockets at the interface between the InP dot and the GaP barrier. Since this Conduction state is GaP X{sub 1c} derived and the highest occupied valence state is InP, {Gamma} derived, the fundamental transition is predicted to be indirect in both real and reciprocal space ({open_quotes}type II{close_quotes}) for all dot sizes. This effect is peculiar to the strained dot, and is absent in the freestanding dot. {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society}

  • identity of the Conduction Band Minimum in alas 1 gaas 1 001 superlattices intermixing induced reversal of states
    Physical Review B, 1992
    Co-Authors: D B Laks, Alex Zunger
    Abstract:

    First-principles pseudopotential calculations on the (001) (AlAs){sub 1}/(GaAs){sub 1} superlattice (SL) shows that {ital partial} intermixing of the Al and Ga atoms relative to the abrupt case lowers its formation energy, making this SL even stabler at low {ital T} than the fully randomized Al{sub 0.5}Ga{sub 0.5}As alloy. Concomitantly, the Conduction-Band Minimum (CBM) reverts from the GaAs {ital L}-derived state, to the {ital X}{sup {ital x}{ital y}}-derived AlAs state. The previously noted discrepancy between theory (pertinent to abrupt SL's and yielding an {ital L}-derived CBM) and experiment (yielding an {ital X}{sup {ital x}{ital y}}-derived CBM) is therefore attributed to insufficient interfacial abruptness in the samples used to date in experimental studies.

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  • Space group symmetry of the Conduction Band Minimum in very short period superlattices
    Solid State Communications, 1992
    Co-Authors: W D Schmidt, M D Sturge, Loren Pfeiffer, K W West
    Abstract:

    Abstract In a perfect (GaAs) m (AlAs) n type-II superlattice the symmetry of the Conduction Band states, and therefore the Band mixing, depends on whether m, n or (m+n) are odd or even. We have investigated the symmetry of the Conduction Band minima in very short-period superlattices (m≤n≤4) by time resolved photoluminescence under applied uniaxial stress, and find that selection rules that depend on space group symmetry through k-conservation are well obeyed, but parity with respect to space inversion is apparently not a good quantum number in our samples.

  • Conduction Band Minimum of gaas 1 alas 1 superlattices relationship to x Minimum of alas
    Physical Review B, 1991
    Co-Authors: Weikun Ge, W D Schmidt, M D Sturge, L N Pfeiffer, K W West
    Abstract:

    We show that the Conduction-Band Minimum in a (GaAs){sub 1}/(AlAs){sub 1} superlattice derives from the {ital X}{sub {ital x},}{ital y} Minimum of bulk AlAs, not from {ital L} of GaAs as predicted by many theoretical calculations. This is shown by the sign of the shift in the low-temperature photoluminescence under (001) stress, by the relative magnitudes of the shifts under (100) and (110) stress, by the phonon sideBands, and by the observation of a splitting under (100) but not under (110) stress.

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