Capture and Relaxation in Self-Assembled Semiconductor Quantum Dots: The Dot and its Environment

ISBN-13: 9781681740256 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 112 str.

Robson Ferreira; Gerald Bastard

Opis

This is an overview of different models and mechanisms developed to describe the capture and relaxation of carriers in quantum-dot systems. Despite their undisputed importance, the mechanisms leading to population and energy exchanges between a quantum dot and its environment are not yet fully understood. The authors develop a first-order approach to such effects, using elementary quantum mechanics and an introduction to the physics of semiconductors. The book results from a series of lectures given by the authors at the Masters level.

Spis treści

• 1. Electronic states in self assembled semiconductor quantum dots
• 2. Capture of carriers by the quantum dots
• 3. Energy relaxation of confined carriers in self assembled quantum dots