Spin-dependent transmission of holes through a semiconductor quantum wire with multiple stub

The spin transport of holes through a quantum wire made of many identical T-shaped diluted magnetic semiconductor/semiconductor units is investigated theoretically. The spin-down and spin-up transmission coefficients have been studied as a function of stub parameters. The spin-up transmission coefficient as a function of the stub length is extremely negligible, in the case of multiple-stub quantum wire, while the spin-down transmission coefficient shows a nearly periodic behaviour with regions of large transmission separated by forbidden bands. The spin polarization switches periodically between one and zero as the stub length is changed and shows a square-wave pattern.     

Magnetopolaron in a Rectangular Harmonic Quantum Wire

Cyclotron resonance of a magnetopolaron in a rectangular harmonic quantum wire withmagnetic fidd normal to the quanturn wire is investigated theoretically. The results weobtained show that, the Landau levels in the quantum wire are raised relative to those intwo-dimensional quanturn well due to the addition of a parabolic potential. The results alsoshow that, the cyclotron frequency and cyclotron mass of ID polaron are very different fromthose of 2D polaron, especially for weak magnetic field region ω_C << ω_LO     

Electron Raman scattering in cylindrical quantum wires

Electron Raman scattering (ERS) is investigated in a free-standing semiconductor quantum wire of cylindrical geometry for two classes of materials CdS and GaAs. The differential cross section (DCS) involved in this process is calculated as a function of a scattering frequency and the radius of the cylinder. Electron states are considered to be confined within a free-standing quantum wire (FSW). Single parabolic conduction and valence bands are assumed. The selection rules are studied. Singularities in the spectra are found and interpreted for various radii of the cylinder.     

The isotropic-to-nematic transition in a two-dimensional fluid of hard needles: a finite-size scaling study

Laser dependence of binding energy on exciton in a GaAs quantum well wire embedded on an AlGaAs wire within the single band effective mass approximation is investigated. Laser dressed donor binding energy is calculated as a function of wire radius with the renormalization of the semiconductor gap and conduction valence effective masses. We take into account the laser dressing effects on both the impurity Coulomb potential and the confinement potential. The valence-band anisotropy is included in our theoretical model by using different hole masses in different spatial directions. The spatial dielectric function and the polaronic effects have been employed in a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wire. The numerical calculations reveal that the binding energy is found to increase with decrease with the wire radius, and decrease with increase with the value of laser field amplitude, the polaronic effect enhances the binding energy considerably and the binding energy of the impurity for the narrow well wire is more sensitive to the laser field amplitude.     

量子点浮置栅量子线沟道三栅结构单电子场效应管存储特性的数值模拟

通过建立二维薛定谔方程和泊松方程数值模型,对基于硅量子点浮置栅和硅量子线沟道三栅结构单电子场效应管(FET)存储特性进行了研究.通过在不同尺寸、栅压和不同写入电荷条件下,对硅量子线沟道中电子浓度的二维有限元自洽数值求解,研究了在纳米尺度下硅量子线沟道中量子限制效应和电荷分布对于器件特性的影响.模拟结果发现,沟道的导通阈值电压随着尺寸的缩小而提高,并随浮置栅内存储的电子数目的增加而明显升高.然而,这样的增加趋势在受到纳米尺度沟道中高电荷密度的影响下将出现非线性饱和趋势.进一步研究发现,当沟道尺寸较小时,沟道 关键词： 三栅单电子FET存储器 量子效应 薛定谔方程 泊松方程     

抛物量子线中弱耦合极化子的有效质量和光学声子平均数

讨论电子与体纵光学(LO)声子弱耦合时对抛物量子线中极化子性质的影响.采用Tokuda改进的线性组合算符法、Lagrange乘子和变分法,导出了抛物量子线中弱耦合极化子的有效质量和光学声子平均数随拉格朗日乘子变化的规律及极化子振动频率随量子线约束强度的变化规律.并以ZnS量子线为例进行了数值计算,结果表明:抛物量子线中弱耦合极化子的有效质量m^*和光学声子平均数N随着拉格朗日乘子u的增加而增大;该结论与体材料中结论基本一致,但量子线中的效应比体材料更明显,表明量子线对电子约束的增强,使极化子效应更明显.同时,极化子振动频率λ随约束强度ω₀的增强而增大.     

Energy sublevels in an Al0.5Ga0.5As/GaAs/Al0.5Ga0.5As quantum wire

We report the successful fabrication of a V-grooveAl_0.5Ga_0.5As/GaAs/Al_0.5Ga_0.5As quantum wire system and the temperature-dependent photoluminescence (PL) measurement. The PL spectra are dominated by four features at 681, 642, 635 and 621 nm attributed to the luminescences from quantum wire, top, vertical and side-wall well regions by micro-PL measurements. By the calculations of the energy structure, discrete states (localized sublevels) in the quantum wire region and continuum states (extended along the side-wall and vertical quantum wells) in side-wall and vertical quantum wells have been obtained in both the conduction and valence bands. The calculated excitation energies explain very well the peak positions and their temperature dependence in the photoluminescence measurements.     

Polaron self-energy and effective mass in a freestanding cylindrical quantum wire

The polaron self-energy and correction to the electron effective mass in a freestanding quantum wire is investigated by the perturbation approach.The polaron effect of the electron-confined longitudinal optical (LO) phonon and surface optical (SO) phonon interactions are separately worked out. Numerical calculation on a GaAs quantum wire shows that the confined LO phonon contribution to the polaron self-energy is relatively small for a narrow wire and gradually approach that of the bulk material when the radius of the wire increases. While the contribution of the SO phonon modes is big for small wire radius and then decreases as the radius increases.     

STM tunneling through a quantum wire with a side-attached impurity

The STM tunneling through a quantum wire (QW) with a side-attached impurity (atom, island) is investigated using a tight-binding model and the non-equilibrium Keldysh Green function method. The impurity can be coupled to one or more QW atoms. The presence of the impurity strongly modifies the local density of states of the wire atoms, thus influences the STM tunneling through all the wire atoms. The transport properties of the impurity itself are also investigated mainly as a function of the wire length and the way it is coupled to the wire. It is shown that the properties of the impurity itself and the way it is coupled to the wire strongly influence the STM tunneling, the density of states and differential conductance.     

Thermal conductance in quantum wire with two obstacles

Based on the scattering-matrix method, the influence of obstacles on the thermal conductance in quantum wire was investigated. Three types of obstacles are employed in our calculation. We present a detailed study of the thermal conductance as a function of distance between two obstacles and temperature. The results show that there is qualitative difference in the dependence of the thermal conductance versus width between two obstacles for different temperatures. We also find that the calculated thermal conductance increases with the width W of quantum wire in all cases.     

Simultaneous effects of temperature and pressure on the donor binding energy in a V-groove quantum wire

The influence of temperature and pressure, simultaneously, on the binding energy of a hydrogenic donor impurity in a ridge GaAs/Ga_1−xAl_xAs quantum wire is studied using a variational procedure within the effective mass approximation. The subband energy and the binding energy of the donor impurity in its ground state as a function of the wire bend width and impurity location at different temperatures and pressures are calculated. The results show that, when the temperature increases, the donor binding energy decreases for a constant applied pressure for all wire bend widths. Also, the binding energy increases by increasing the pressure for a constant temperature for all wire bend widths. In addition, when the temperature and pressure are applied simultaneously the binding energy decreases as the quantum wire bend width increases. On the whole, it is deduced that the temperature and pressure have important effects on the donor binding energy in a V-groove quantum wire.     

Blockade of tunneling in a suspended single-electron transistor

The tunneling of electrons that is limited by the Coulomb blockade effect in a single-electron transistor with a quantum dot based on a narrow GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wire suspended over a substrate is investigated. By means of a direct comparison experiment, the tunneling features associated with the separation of the quantum dot from the substrate are revealed. In addition to an increase in the charge energy (Coulomb gap), which reaches 170 K in temperature units, the dependence of this energy on the number of electrons in the quantum dot, which varies from zero to four, is observed. This dependence is explained by a change in the effective size of the dot due to the effect of the depleting gate voltage. Moreover, the additional blockade of tunneling that is different from the Coulomb blockade and is specific for suspended structures is observed. It is shown that this blockade is not associated with the dynamical effect of exciting local phonon modes and can be attributed to the change in the static elastic strains in the quantum wire that accompany the tunneling of an electron to/from the quantum dot.     

Electronic transmission through a quantum wire by side-attached nanowires

A system of arrays of nanowires side-coupled to a quantum wire is studied. Transport through the quantum wire is investigated by using a noninteracting Anderson tunneling Hamiltonian. An analytical expression of the conductance at zero temperature is given, showing a band with alternating forbidden and allowed minibands due to the discrete structure of the nanowires. A generalization of the odd–even parity symmetry is found in this system, whose conductance exhibits a forbidden miniband in the center of the band for an odd number of sites in the nanowires, while shows an allowed band for an even number.     

Polaronic Effects of an Exciton in a Cylindrical Quantum Wire

The effects of exciton-optical phonon interaction on the binding energy and the total and reduced effective masses of an exciton in a cylindrical quantum wire have been investigated. We adopt a perturbative-PLL [T.D. Lee, F. Low, and D. Pines, Phys. Rev. B90 (1953) 297] technique to construct an effective Hamiltonian and then use a variational solution to deal with the exciton-phonon system. The interactions of exciton with the longitudinal-optical phonon and the surface-optical phonon have been taken into consideration. The numerical calculations for GaAs show that the influences of phonon modes on the exciton in a quasi-one-dimensional quantum wire are considerable and should not be neglected. Moreover the numerical results for heavy- and light-hole exciton are obtained, which show that the polaronic effects on two types of excitons are very different but both depend heavily on the sizes of the wire.     

抛物量子线中强耦合极化子的有效质量

采用改进的线性组合算符法、Lagrange乘子和变分法,在考虑电子与LO声子相互作用情况下,研究了抛物量子线中强耦合极化子的有效质量和光学声子平均数。通过数值计算,讨论了约束强度ω₀和拉格朗日乘子u对极化子的有效质量m^*和光学声子平均数N及极化子振动频率λ的影响。计算结果表明:有效质量m^*和光学声子平均数N及极化子振动频率λ都随着约束强度ω₀和拉格朗日乘子u的增加而增大。     

Plasmons in a free-standing nanorod with a two-dimensional parabolic quantum well caused by surface states

The collective charge density excitations in a free-standing nanorod with a two-dimensional parabolic quantum well are investigated within the framework of Bohm-Pine’s random-phase approximation in the two-subband model.The new simplified analytical expressions of the Coulomb interaction matrix elements and dielectric functions are derived and numerically discussed.In addition,the electron density and temperature dependences of dispersion features are also investigated.We find that in the two-dimensional parabolic quantum well,the intrasubband upper branch is coupled with the intersubband mode,which is quite different from other quasi-one-dimensional systems like a cylindrical quantum wire with an infinite rectangular potential.In addition,we also find that higher temperature results in the intersubband mode(with an energy of 12 meV(～ 3 THz)) becoming totally damped,which agrees well with the experimental results of Raman scattering in the literature.These interesting properties may provide useful references to the design of free-standing nanorod based devices.     

Metamaterial composed of wire pairs exhibiting dual band negative refraction

The design of the metamaterial that can exhibit negative refraction at two frequency bands is presented. The components of this metamaterial are cut wire pairs and continuous wires. The cut wire pairs structure in our sample can achieve the magnetic resonance at two frequency bands by appropriately designing the cut wire dimension. Through numerical simulation, the transmission property of the proposed dual band negative index metamaterial is investigated and its result shows that with the introduction of continuous wires, the stop bands for cut wire pairs (permeability μ<0) and the frequency band for continuous wires (permittivity ε<0) components would overlap and lead to the appearance of pass bands near the two magnetic resonance frequency bands. Its electromagnetic properties are then retrieved to demonstrate that the dual band left-hand behavior can be obtained in our sample structure. It is believed that our approach will be effective to make this kind of dual band negative refractive metamaterial based on the multiple magnetic resonances work at optical frequency.     

Multi-mode transport through a quantum nanowire with two embedded dots

We investigate the conductance of a quantum wire with two embedded quantum dots using a T-matrix approach based on the Lippmann-Schwinger formalism. The quantum dots are represented by a quantum well with Gaussian shape and the wire is two-dimensional with parabolic confinement in the transverse direction. In a broad wire the transport can assume a strong nonadiabatic character and the conductance manifests effects caused by intertwined inter- and intra-dot processes that are identified by analysis of the “nearfield” probability distribution of the transported electrons.     

Donor binding energy and radiative life time of exciton in a strained InGaN/GaN quantum wire

Donor binding energies of positively and negatively charged impurities in a strained InGaN/GaN cylindrical quantum wire are investigated. The interband optical transition with and without the exciton is computed as a function of wire radius. The exciton oscillator strength and the exciton lifetime for radiative recombination as a function of wire radius have been computed.     

Numerical Study of Spin-Dependent Transport Through a Magnetic Quantum Wire with Lattice Vacancy

The impact of lattice vacancy on the spin dependent transport properties of a magnetic-quantum wire (MQW) has been investigated. A simple tight binding Hamiltonian to describe the model is used, where the quantum wire is attached to two semi-infinite one-dimensional non-magnetic electrodes. Based on the Landauer–Buttiker formalism all the calculations are performed numerically which describe two-terminal conductance. The results suggest that in presence of vacancy the transmission reduces and vacancy creates quasilocalized states around zero energy (E _f = 0). In order to investigate spin-filtering effect of (MQW), the degree of polarization in the presence and absences of vacancy has been studied. Also it is found that the effect of vacancy decreases when the size of MQW increases. The results show that a magnetic quantum wire can be used as a spin filter. The application of the predicted results may be useful in designing molecular spin-polarized transistors in the future.