CONFINED EXCITONS IN SEMICONDUCTORS - CORRELATION BETWEEN BINDING-ENERGY AND SPECTRAL ABSORPTION SHAPE

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作者
LEFEBVRE, P [1 ]
CHRISTOL, P [1 ]
MATHIEU, H [1 ]
GLUTSCH, S [1 ]
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[1] LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB, BERKELEY, CA 94720 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevB.52.5756
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
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We calculate excitonic absorption spectra in several types of semiconductor nanostructures by using an original formalism involving fractional-dimensional spaces. This compact, analytical formulation predicts a surprising one-to-one mapping between the enhanced exciton Rydberg and the shape of the spectrum, whatever the physical origin of the confinement. by all-numerical calculation of the optical susceptibility we check that different systems with identical exciton Rydbergs exhibit nearly identical spectra, strikingly close to those given by the fractional-dimensional approach.
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