Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2010-09-02
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
17 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
Scientific paper
This paper details a complete formalism for calculating electron subband energy and degeneracy in strained multi-valley quantum wells grown along any orientation with explicit results for the AlAs quantum well case. A standardized rotation matrix is defined to transform from the conventional- cubic-cell basis to the quantum-well-transport basis whereby effective mass tensors, valley vectors, strain matrices, anisotropic strain ratios, and scattering vectors are all defined in their respective bases. The specific cases of (001)-, (110)-, and (111)-oriented aluminum arsenide (AlAs) quantum wells are examined, as is the unconventional (411) facet, which is of particular importance in AlAs literature. Calculations of electron confinement and strain in the (001), (110), and (411) facets determine the critical well width for crossover from double- to single-valley degeneracy in each system. The notation is generalized to include miscut angles, and can be adapted to other multi-valley systems. To help classify anisotropic inter-valley scattering events, a new primitive unit cell is defined in momentum space which allows one to distinguish purely in-plane inter-valley scattering events from those that requires an out-of-plane momentum scattering component.
Birner S.
Dasgupta Subhajit
Grayson Matt
Knaak C.
Prabhu-Gaunkar S.
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