Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots

Paul Harrison is currently working in the Institute of Microwaves and Photonics (IMP), which is a research institute within the school of Electronic and Electrical Engineering t the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. He can always be found on the web, at the time of writing, at: http://www.ee.leeds.ac.uk/homes/ph/ and always answers e-mail. Currently he can be reached at: P.harrison@leeds.ac.uk or p.harrison@physics.org Paul is working on a wide variety of Projects, most of which centre around exploiting quantum mechanics for the creation of novel opto-electronic devices, largely, but not exclusively, in semiconductor Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots. Up to date information can be found on his web page. He is always looking for exceptionally well qualified and motivated students to study for a PhD degree with him-if interested, please don't hesitate to contact him. Zoran Ikonic was a Professor at the University of Belgrade and is now also a researcher in the IMP. His research interest and experience include the full width of semiconductor physics and optoelectronic devices, in particular, band structure calculations, strain-layered systems, carrier scattering theory, non-linear optics, as well as conventional and quantum mechanical methods for device optimisation. Vladimir Jovanovic is just completing his PhD at the IMP on physical models of quantum well infrared photodetectors and quantum cascade lasers in GaN- and GaAs-based materials for near-, mid- and far-infrared (Terahertz) applications.

Preface.Acknowledgements.About the Author.About the Book.Introduction.1. Semiconductors and Heterostructures.2. Solutions to Schrodinger's Equation.3. Numerical Solutions.4. Diffusion.5. Impurities.6. Excitons.7. Strained Quantum Wells, V.D. Jovanovic.8. Quantum Wires and Dots.9. Carrier Scattering.10. Multiband Envelope Function (k.p.) Method, Z Ikonic.11. Empirical Pseudopotential Theory.12. Microscopic Electronic Properties of Heterostructures.13. Application to Quantum Wires and Dots.Concluding Remarks.Appendix: Materials Parameters.References.Topic Index.