Energy states of vertically aligned quantum dot array with nonparabolic effective mass

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-51

  Hwang, Tsung Min ^a   Wang, Weichung ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cubic Jacobi Davidson method; Cubic large scale eigenvalue problems; Energy levels; Matrix reduction; Semiconductor quantum dot array; The Schr dinger equation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CUBIC JACOBI-DAVIDSON METHOD; CUBIC LARGE-SCALE EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS; MATRIX REDUCTION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOT ARRAYS; THE SCHRÖDINGER EQUATIONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 17944382102     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2005.01.004     Document Type: Article

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