Excitons in semiconductor quantum wells: A straightforward analytical calculation
- 1 July 1992
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 72 (1) , 300-302
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.352137
Abstract
International audienceA new and very simple method is presented for calculating exciton binding energies in quantum confined semiconductor structures. The aim of the model calculation, which is developed in the framework of the fractional‐dimensional space, is not to compete with the very advanced ones already proposed but, on the contrary, to avoid tedious and expensive calculations to obtain, with a good accuracy, the exciton binding energy in most of the confined structures. Furthermore, in the cases where the 1s and 2s transition energies can be experimentally measured, the method permits one to obtain the exciton binding energy without any hypothesis nor calculationThis publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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