Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-jbqgn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-26T15:52:30.049Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Structure, Composition and Optoelectronic Properties of Small Pyramidal Semiconductor Quantum Dots of Ga and In Atoms With As

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Liudmila A. Pozhar ,
Alan T. Yeates ,
Frank Szmulowicz  and
William C. Mitchel
Liudmila A. Pozhar
Affiliation:
Liudmila.Pozhar@wku.edu, Western Kentucky University, Chemistry, 1906 College Heights Blvd., TCCW 444, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 42101-1079, United States, 270-745-8725, 270-745-5361
Alan T. Yeates
Affiliation:
Alan.Yeates@wpafb.af.mil, Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, United States
Frank Szmulowicz
Affiliation:
Frank.Szmulowicz@wpafb.af.mil, Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, United States
William C. Mitchel
Affiliation:
William.Mitchel@wpafb.af.mil, Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, United States
Get access

Abstract

Electronic properties of small pyramidal clusters of Ga, In and As atoms are investigated using a multi-configuration self-consistent field approximation (MCSCF). The structure and composition of some of these (pre-designed) clusters have been derived from those of the symmetry elements of the corresponding bulk fcc lattices, to reflect the cluster formation in confinement or on surfaces. The counterpart (vacuum) clusters obtained without any spatial constraints applied to the atomic positions have also being synthesized computationally. It has been shown that manipulations with the cluster structure, composition and spatial constraints permit to engineer virtual (i.e., fundamental theory-based, computational) clusters with pre-designed electronic properties that can serve as prototypes for nanoscale heterostructure (NHS) units. Computational data so obtained are in agreement with existing experimental evidence concerning such pyramidal clusters.

Keywords

electronic structureoptoelectronicnanostructure
Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 891: Symposium EE – Progress in Semiconductor Materials V – Novel Materials and Electronics and Optoelectronic Applications , 2005 , 0891-EE02-04
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2006

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

1. Crawley, D., Nikolic, K. and Rorshaw, M., 3-D Nanoelectronic Computer Architecture and Implementation, Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, London, 2004.10.1201/9781420034783Google Scholar
2. See discussions in Pozhar, L.A., Yeates, A.T., Szmulowicz, F. and Mitchel, W.C., Mat. Res. Soc. Proc. 788, 165 (2004);Google Scholar
Pozhar, L.A., de Almeida, V.F., and Hu, M.Z.-C., Ceramics Trans., 137, 101 (2003);Google Scholar
Pozhar, L.A., Proc. 2001 Int. Conf. Comp. Nanoscience - ICCN 2001, March 19 – 21, 2001, Hilton Oceanfront Resort, SC, 188 (2001), etc.Google Scholar
3. See, for example, Ghosh, C., Pal, S., Goswami, B. and Sarkar, P., Chem. Phys. Lett., 407, 498 (2005),10.1016/j.cplett.2005.03.120Google Scholar
Bae, Y.-C., Kumar, V., Osanai, H. et al. , Phys. Rev. B, 72, 125427 (2005), etc.Google Scholar
4. See, for example, Briant, G.W. and Jaskolski, W., Mat. Res. Soc. Proc., 789, N13.2 (2004).10.1557/PROC-789-N13.2Google Scholar
5. See, for example, Pozhar, L.A., Yeates, A.T., Szmulowicz, F. and Mitchel, W.C., Mat. Res. Soc. Proc. 829, 49 (2005) and references therein.Google Scholar
6. Pozhar, L.A., Yeates, A.T., Szmulowicz, F. and Mitchel, W.C., EuroPhys. Lett., 71, 380 (2005).10.1209/epl/i2005-10106-3Google Scholar
7. Pozhar, L.A., Yeates, A.T., Szmulowicz, F. and Mitchel, W.C., Mat. Res. Soc. Proc. 788, 165 (2004).Google Scholar
8. Optics of Quantum Dots and Wires, Eds: Bryant, G.W. and Solomon, G.S., Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2005.Google Scholar