Numerical methods for semiconductor heterostructures with band nonparabolicity

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 141-158

  Wang, Weichung ^a   Hwang, Tsung Min ^b   Lin, Wen Wei ^c   Liu, Jinn Liang ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cubic eigenvalue problems; Cubic Jabobi Davidson method; Energy levels; Explicit nonequivalence deflation; Matrix reduction; Semiconductor quantum dot; The Schr dinger equation; Wave functions

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HETEROJUNCTIONS; JACOBIAN MATRICES; NANOCRYSTALS; NUMERICAL METHODS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

BAND NONPARABOLICITY; BOUND-STATE ENERGIES; CUBIC EIGENVALUE PROBLEM; CUBIC JABOBI-DAVIDSON METHOD; DAVIDSON METHOD; EIGENVALUE PROBLEM; EXPLICIT NONEQUIVALENCE DEFLATION; MATRIX REDUCTION; SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURE; THE SCHRÖDINGE EQUATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0041856293     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00268-7     Document Type: Article

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