Self-consistent calculation of subband occupation and electron-hole plasma effects: Variational approach to quantum well states with hartree and exchange-correlation interactions

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 4489-4501

  Ando, Taro ^a,c   Taniyama, Hideaki ^a,d   Ohtani, Naoki ^a,e   Nakayama, Masaaki ^b   Hosoda, Makoto ^b  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^d NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRON MOBILITY; HAMILTONIANS;

SUBBAND STATES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 0142025611     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1606512     Document Type: Article

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