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Effects of Confinement on Shallow Impurities in GaAs-Ga 1−xA1xAs Quantum Dots

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

Francisco A. P. Osörio
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física, Instituto de Matemática e Física, Universidade Federal de Goiás, C.p. 131, 74000 Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Oscar HipöLito
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física e Ciência dos Materials, Instituto de Física e Química de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, C.p. 369, 13560–970, S.P., Brazil
Francois M. Peeters
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Antwerp (U.I.A.), B-2610 Antwerpen, Belgium
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Abstract

The ground state energy of a shallow impurity placed in the center of a circular quantum dot is studied. The effects of the strength of the confinement potential and a perpendicular magnetic field are investigated theoretically.

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Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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