Interface-roughness and island effects on tunneling in quantum wells
- 15 December 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 64 (12) , 6785-6789
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.342013
Abstract
An effective-mass envelope function approach is applied to tunneling in quantum wells with nonplanar heterointerfaces. Epitaxial-growth-related interface roughnesses and islands complicate electron-tunneling processes and degrade resonant tunneling in double-barrier structures. Basic theoretical techniques are developed and applied to both single- and double-barrier cases.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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