Phonon-assisted tunnelling of electrons in a quantum well-quantum dot injection structure
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2017-12-11 v1
Abstract
We study theoretically phonon-assisted relaxation and tunnelling in a system composed of a quantum dot which is coupled to a quantum well. Within the kp method combined with the L\"owdin elimination, we calculate the electron states. We calculate acoustic phonon-assisted relaxation rates between the states in the quantum well and in the quantum dot and study the resulting electron kinetics. We show that transition efficiency crucially depends on the system geometry. We show also that under some conditions, transition efficiency can decrease with the temperature.
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@article{arxiv.1405.5067,
title = {Phonon-assisted tunnelling of electrons in a quantum well-quantum dot injection structure},
author = {Adam Mielnik-Pyszczorski and Krzysztof Gawarecki and Paweł Machnikowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.5067},
year = {2017}
}