Theoretical Study of Polarization Effects in Laterally Modulated Quantum Wells

• Authors: U. Bockelmann
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Polarization anisotropies of luminescence spectra caused by a potential modulation in the quantum well plane are discussed. Any lateral potential induces heavy hole light hole mixing. This leads to lateral polarization dependence of the interband transition rates if the confinement potential is not symmetrical with respect to rotations by 90 degrees around the quantum well growth axis. We present some numerical results for quantum wire arrays and discuss to what extent the present theory can be compared to experimental results.

Keywords

EN

78.66.-w

Discipline

• 78.66.-w: Optical properties of specific thin films(for optical properties of low-dimensional, mesoscopic, and nanoscale materials, see 78.67.-n; for optical properties of surfaces, see 78.68.+m)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 1993
• Volume: 84
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 505-513

Dates

published

1993-09

Contributors

author

U. Bockelmann

• Walter Schottky Institut, Technische Universität München, Am Coulombwall, 8046 Garching, Germany

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.84.505