Band Structure of the Effective-Mass Superlattice

Author

Klymenko, M.V. ; Safonov, I.M. ; Shulika, O.V. ; Sukhoivanov, I.A.

Author_Institution

Kharkov Nat. Univ. of Radio Electron.

fYear

2006

fDate

June 29 2006-July 1 2006

Firstpage

411

Lastpage

414

Abstract

The new kind of semiconductor superlattice is proposed. It is based on the new type of semiconductor heterojunctions that have only carrier effective mass discontinuity and no or extremely small band lineups in both conduction and valence bands. Confinement effects in these structures are due to effective mass discontinuity only. It makes this kind of structures to be very sensitive to the boundary conditions for envelope functions. The continuity of the envelope function and its first derivative on the heteroboundary are inapplicable in this case. We estimate theoretically the band structure of this superlattice within the framework of the effective mass approximation and boundary conditions that take in to account the distinction of the Bloch functions in contacting materials

Keywords

conduction bands; effective mass; semiconductor heterojunctions; semiconductor superlattices; valence bands; Bloch functions; band structure; carrier effective mass discontinuity; conduction band; semiconductor heterojunctions; semiconductor superlattice; valence band; Boundary conditions; Carrier confinement; Effective mass; Electrons; Equations; Function approximation; Heterojunctions; Photonics; Semiconductor materials; Semiconductor superlattices; band lineups; band offsets; band structure; effective mass approximation; superlattice;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Laser and Fiber-Optical Networks Modeling, 8-th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kharkiv

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0233-6

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0234-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LFNM.2006.252074

Filename

4018293