Published July 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Mole fraction effect on the interband transition energy of CdTe/CdxZn1-xTe nanostructures

  • 1. Catholic University of Daegu, Kyungsan (Korea, Republic of)

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The electrical properties of strained CdTe quantum dots (QDs) grown on a CdTe/CdxZn1-xTe substrate layer were studied using an eight-band strain-dependent k·p Hamiltonian and the theory of linear elasticity. The combined effect of the Cd mole fraction of the CdxZn1-xTe substrate and the wetting layer thickness is found to have an influence on the energies of the conduction and the valence subbands. We find that at the wetting layer thickness used in the PL spectra, the calculated interband transition energy shows a reasonable agreement with the experiment data when a pyramidally shaped nanostructure is assumed.

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Journal Title
Journal of the Korean Physical Society
Journal Volume
57
Journal Issue
1
Series
17 refs, 3 figs
Journal Page Range
p. 178-182
ISSN
0374-4884