Spurious solutions in the multiband effective mass theory applied to low dimensional nanostructures

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 699-729

  Lassen, B ^a   Melnik, R V N ^b   Willatzen, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abrupt interfaces; Band gap; Continuum and atomistic models; Coupled systems of PDEs; Effective envelope theory; Eigenvalue problem; Fourier coefficients; Highly oscillatory integrals; Interface boundary conditions; K space; Low dimensional semiconductor nanostructures; Multiband models; Multiple scales; Quantum confinement; Spurious solutions; Variational formulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 74549211991     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: 19917120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4208/cicp.2009.v6.p699     Document Type: Article

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