Electron energies of InAs/InP quantum wires

The electron properties of rectangular and elliptical quantum wires (QWRs) are investigated in detail by using the perturbation theory and the diagonalization method. In cases of both the absence and presence of a magnetic field the electron states are given in the single band effective mass approximation. The calculations show that the electron energies in quantum wires are dramatically influenced by the shape of the wires. The quantum behaviors of the quantum wires studied are similar to that of other-shaped QWRs which were studied before.