Abstract
Results for the binding and infrared transition energies associated with the ground and first few excited states of a hydrogenic-donor impurity in a cylindrical GaAs-As quantum-well wire are presented. A variational approach for the trial envelope wave functions corresponding to each donor state is used within the effective-mass approximation. Results are obtained for several wire radii in the case of donors located at the axis of the quantum-well wire. We find that the impurity states 2 (2) and 3 (3) are not bounded when the wire radius is sufficiently small, a behavior similar to the one found for impurities in quantum-well heterostructures.
- Received 19 November 1991
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.45.9420
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