Abstract
Confined excitons in non-abrupt GaAs/AI(x)Ga(1-x)As single quantum wells
are studied. The graded interfaces are described taking into account
fluctuations in their thickness a and positioning alpha with respect to
the abrupt interface picture. Numerical results for confined (0, 0), (1
1) and (0, 2) excitons in GaAs/Al0.3Ga0.7As quantum wells show that
while the interfacial fluctuations produce small changes (<0.5 meV) in
the exciton binding energies, the confined exciton energies can be red-
or blue-shifted as much as 25 meV for wells with mean width of 50
Angstrom and 2 ML wide interfaces. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All
rights reserved.
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