Optical Properties of Asymmetric Quantum Wells in the Presence of External Fields

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Vera Mathias, Francisco JavierAbstract
The breaking of symmetry in a semiconductor, when a small number of atomic layers of other semiconductor is grown inside, drastically changes the energy spectra of the system. This spectra changes towards the one corresponding to a system of electrons in a quantum well potential, which is related to the properties of the valence and conduction band in both semiconductors. Several kinds of semiconductor heterostructures have been created in this w...
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The breaking of symmetry in a semiconductor, when a small number of atomic layers of other semiconductor is grown inside, drastically changes the energy spectra of the system. This spectra changes towards the one corresponding to a system of electrons in a quantum well potential, which is related to the properties of the valence and conduction band in both semiconductors. Several kinds of semiconductor heterostructures have been created in this way, showing interesting optical and transport properties, related to different kinds of geometrical quantum confinement of electrons or holes.
In this thesis we studied, theoretically, the excitonic energy levels and the optical absorption spectra for double quantum wells,both symmetric and asymmetric, in the presence of a homogeneous magnetic field. Within the effective-mass approach, we expanded the excitonic wave function, in an orthogonal basis formed by the products of electron and hole wave functions in growth direction z , and one-particle solutions of the magnetic Hamiltonian in the x y plane. We applied our method to the case of AlxGa1 x As, for which we showed how the exciton wave-function vary, and how the basis functions are mixed in a nontrivial way by the effect of the Coulomb potential. By taking into account all the mixing between the elements in our base, we get anticrossings between excited excitonic states not reported previously.
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1998Academic guide
Barticevic, Zdenka
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