The impurity states in different shaped quantum wells under applied electric field

Abstract

In this paper, the impurity states in square, parabolic and V-shaped quantum wells (QWs) are calculated by the plane wave method under the theoretical framework of effective mass envelope function approximation. In different shaped QWs, the impurity binding energies in 1s-like state and 2p-like state have the same trend with the increase of QW width. However, the transition energies of impurity states between 1s-like state and 2p-like state in three shaped QWs are different. When the width of QW is fixed, the transition energy in square QW is the minimum and that in V-shaped QW is the maximum. The effect of electric field is larger for the on-center donor impurity. The effect of electric field on the impurity states is the largest in square QW and the smallest in V-shaped QW.