Capture and Relaxation in Self-Assembled Semiconductor Quantum Dots
The dot and its environment
By (author) Robson Ferreira, Gérald Bastard
Publication date:
23 February 2016Length of book:
112 pagesPublisher
Morgan & Claypool PublishersISBN-13: 9781681741536
This is an overview of different models and mechanisms developed to describe the capture and relaxation of carriers in quantum-dot systems. Despite their undisputed importance, the mechanisms leading to population and energy exchanges between a quantum dot and its environment are not yet fully understood. The authors develop a first-order approach to such effects, using elementary quantum mechanics and an introduction to the physics of semiconductors. The book results from a series of lectures given by the authors at the master’s level.