Group Delay in Semiconductor Structures with Energy Dependent Effective Mass

• Authors: S. Kočinac , V. Milanović
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We investigate tunneling times of a particle with energy dependent effective mass for a one-dimensional real potential. General relations between phase, group and dwell times are obtained for a desired potential shape. For the textbook case of a real rectangular potential barrier the explicit relations for relevant times are derived, which reveal that the nonparabolicity, depending on the energy of incident particle, may substantially increase the group time in realistic structures. Further, we extend this theory to the case of absorptive media described by complex potentials, via introduction of a new absorptive tunneling time τ_a. Depending on whether the short wavelength or long wavelength limit is considered, maximization of τ_a results in a very different shape of a complex rectangular potential.

Keywords

EN

03.65.Xp; 73.21.Fg; 73.40.Gk; 73.43.Jn

Discipline

• 03.65.Xp: Tunneling, traversal time, quantum Zeno dynamics
• 73.21.Fg: Quantum wells
• 73.43.Jn: Tunneling
• 73.40.Gk: Tunneling(for tunneling in quantum Hall effects, see 73.43.Jn)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 112
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 1037-1042

Dates

published

2007-11

received

2007-09-03

Contributors

author

S. Kočinac

• Faculty of Technology, Dep. of Physics, Karnegijeva 4, 11120 Belgrade, Serbia

author

V. Milanović

• Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 73, 11120 Belgrade, Serbia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.112.1037