DISPERSION OF INTERFACE OPTICAL PHONONS AND THEIR COUPLING WITH ELECTRONS IN ASYMMETRICAL WURTZITEGaN/Ga1-xAlxNQUANTUM WELLS

Li Zhang (), Song Gao and Jun-Jie Shi
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Li Zhang: Department of Mechanism and Electron, Panyu Polytechnic, Panyu, 511483, P. R. China;
Song Gao: Intitute of Heavy Ion Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China
Jun-Jie Shi: State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, and School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China

Surface Review and Letters (SRL), 2005, vol. 12, issue 03, 433-442

Abstract: Within the framework of the dielectric continuum model and Loudon's uniaxial crystal model, the properties of frequency dispersion of the interface optical (IO) phonon modes and the coupling functions of electron–IO-phonon interaction in an asymmetrical wurtzite quantum well (QW) are deduced and analyzed via the method of electrostatic potential expansion. Numerical results reveal that in general, there are four branches of IO phonon modes in the systems. The dispersions of the four branches of IO phonon modes are obvious only when the free wavenumberktinxyplane is small. The degenerating behavior of all the four branches of IO phonon modes in the asymmetric wurtzite QWs has been clearly observed for smallkt. Whenktis relatively large, with the increase ofkt, the frequencies of the IO phonon modes converge to the four definite limiting frequencies in the corresponding wurtzite single planar heterostructure. This feature is obviously different from that in symmetric wurtzite QW, and the mathematical and physical reasons have been analyzed in depth. The calculations of electron–phonon coupling function show that the electrostatic distribution of the IO modes is neither symmetrical nor antisymmetrical, and the high-frequency IO phonon branches and the short-wavelength IO phonon modes play a more important role in the electron–phonon interaction.

Keywords: Phonon modes; electron–phonon coupling; asymmetrical wurtzite heterostructure; 63.20.Dj; 74.25.Kc; 71.38.-k; 63.20.Kr (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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