Hydrogenic donor impurity states and intersubband optical absorption spectra of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides in dielectric environments

The hydrogenic donor impurity states and intersubband optical absorption spectra in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides(ML TMDs) under dielectric environments are theoretically investigated based on a two-dimensional(2D)nonorthogonal associated Laguerre basis set. The 2D quantum confinement effect together with the strongly reduced dielectric screening results in the strong attractive Coulomb potential between electron and donor ion, with exceptionally large impurity binding energy and huge intersubband oscillator strength. These lead to the strong interaction of the electron with light in a 2D regime. The intersubband optical absorption spectra exhibit strong absorption lines of the non-hydrogenic Rydberg series in the mid-infrared range of light. The strength of the Coulomb potential can be controlled by changing the dielectric environment. The electron affinity difference leads to charge transfer between ML TMD and the dielectric environment, generating the polarization-electric field in ML TMD accompanied by weakening the Coulomb interaction strength. The larger the dielectric constant of the dielectric environment, the more the charge transfer is, accompanied by the larger polarization-electric field and the stronger dielectric screening. The dielectric environment is shown to provide an efficient tool to tune the wavelength and output of the mid-infrared intersubband devices based on ML TMDs.

Influence of Polarization-Induced Electric Fields on Optical Properties of Intersubband Transitions in Al_xGa_(1-x)N/GaN Double Quantum Wells

The influence of polarization-induced electric fields on the electron distribution and the optical properties of intersubband transitions （ISBT） in AlxGa（1-x）N/GaN coupled double quantum wells （DQWs） is investigated by self-consistent calculation. It is found that the polarization-induced potential drop leads to an asymmetric potential profile of AlxGa（1-x）N/GaN DQWs even though the two wells have the same width and depth. The polarization effects result in a very large Stark shift between the odd and even order subbands,thus shortening the wavelength of the ISBT between the first odd order and the second even order （1odd-2 ） subbands. Meanwhile, the electron distribution becomes asymmetric due to the polarization effects, and the absorption coefficient of the 1odd-2 ISBT decreases with increasing polarization field discontinuity.

Effects of polarization on intersubband transitions of Al_xGa_(1-x)N/GaN multi-quantum wells

The effects of polarization and related structural parameters on the intersubband transitions of A1GaN/GaN multi- quantum wells （MQWs） have been investigated by solving the Schr6dinger and the Poisson equations self-consistently. The results show that the intersubband absorption coefficient increases with increasing polarization while the transition wavelength decreases, which is not identical to the case of the interband transitions. Moreover, it suggests that the well width has a greater effect on the intersubband transitions than the barrier thickness, and the intersubband transition wavelength of the structure when doped in the barrier is shorter than that when doped in the well. It is found that the influences of the structural parameters differ for different electron subbands. The mechanisms responsible for these effects have been investigated in detail.

Phonon-assisted intersubband transitions in wurtzite GaN/In_x Ga_(1-x) N quantum wells

A detailed numerical calculation on the phonon-assisted intersubband transition rates of electrons in wurtzite CaN/InxGal-xN quantum wells is presented. The quantum-confined Stark effect, induced by the built-in electric field, and the ternary mixed crystal effect are considered. The electron states are obtained by iteratively solving the coupled SchrSdinger and Poisson equations. The dispersion properties of each type of phonon modes are considered in the derivation of Fermi＇s golden rule to evaluate the transition rates. It is indicated that the interface and half- space phonon scattering play an important role in the process of 1 2 radiative transition. The transition rate is also greatly reduced by the built-in electric field. This work can be helpful for the structural design and simulation of new semiconductor lasers.

Terahertz field-induced modulations of intersubband absorptions in quantum wells

Nonlinear optical properties of intersubband electrons in a 3-level quantum well under intense terahertz field are investigated by using a density matrix approach. The results show that the terahertz fields with different frequencies cause the distinct modulations of the intersubband absorptions. The terahertz-indueed sideband and Autler-Towns splitting in the absorption spectrum are obtained, respectively for the terahertz-photon energy below and close to the transition energy between the ground and first excited state.

Study of valence intersubband absorption in tensile strained Si/SiGe quantum wells

The hole subband structures and effective masses of tensile strained Si/Sil-yGey quantum wells are calculated by using the 6 × 6 k·p method. The results show that when the tensile strain is induced in the quantum well, the light-hole state becomes the ground state, and the light hole effective masses in the growth direction are strongly reduced while the in-plane effective masses are considerable. Quantitative calculation of the valence intersubband transition between two light hole states in a 7nm tensile strained Si/Si0.55Ge0.45 quantum well grown on a relaxed Si0.5Ge0.5 （100） substrates shows a large absorption coefficient of 8400 cm^-1.

An optically pumped GaN/AlGaN quantum well intersubband terahertz laser

We propose an optically pumped nonpolar GaN/AlGaN quantum well（QW） active region design for terahertz（THz） lasing in the wavelength range of 30 μm～ 40 μm and operating at room temperature.The fast longitudinal optical（LO） phonon scattering in GaN/AlGaN QWs is used to depopulate the lower laser state,and more importantly,the large LO phonon energy is utilized to reduce the thermal population of the lasing states at high temperatures.The influences of temperature and pump intensity on gain and electron densities are investigated.Based on our simulations,we predict that with a sufficiently high pump intensity,a room temperature operated THz laser using a nonpolar GaN/AlGaN structure is realizable.

Intersubband transitions in In_xAl_(1-x)N/In_yGa_(1-y)N quantum well operating at 1.55 μm

In this paper, we theoretically study the effects of doping concentration ND and an external electric field on the intersubband transitions in InxAl（l-x）N/InyGa（l-y）N single quantum well by solving the Schrodinger and Poisson equations self-consistently. Obtained results including transition energies, the band structure, and the optical absorption have been discussed. The lowest three intersubband transitions （E2 -El）, （E3 -El）, and （E3 -E2） are calculated as functions of doping concentration ND. By increasing the doping concentration ND, the depletion effect can be reduced, and the ionized electrons will compensate the internal electric field which results from the spontaneous polarization. Our results show that an optimum concentration ND exists for which the transition 0.8 eV （1.55 μm） is carried out. Finally, the dependence of the optical absorption α13（ω） on the external electric field and doping concentration is studied. The maximum of the optical absorption can be red-shifted or blue-shifted through varying the doping concentration and the external electric field. The obtained results can be used for designing optical fiber telecommunications operating at 1.55 μm.

MOCVD GaAs/AIGaAs Multiquantum Well Structures and Observation upon the Intersubband Absorption

This paper presents Atmospheric Pressure Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition(AP-MOCVD) growth of GaAs/Al-xGa_(1-x)As multiquantum wells for the study of intersubband transition.The multiple quantum well structures are characterized by using cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy(TEM) and low temperature photoluminescence(PL),which are in consistent with the designed parameters.The in- frared absorption from intersubband transitions between the bounded- ground state and the extended excited state in GaAs/AtGaAs quantum wells shows peak at 10 μm with FWHM 250 cm^(-1).The absorption peak positions are in agreement with the calculated results based on the envelope function approximation.

Transient Intersubband Optical Absorption in Double Quantum Well Structure

The microscopic equations of motion including many-body effects are derived to study the intersubband polarization in the double quantum well structure induced by an ultrafast pumping infrared light. Based on the selfconsistent field theory, the transient probe absorption coefficient is calculated. These calculations are beyond the previous steady-state assumption. Transient probe absorption spectra are calculated under different pumping intensity and various pump probe delay.

Intersubband optical absorption of electrons in double parabolic quantum wells of Al_xGa_(1-x)As/Al_yGa_(1-y)As

Some realizable structures of double parabolic quantum wells（DPQWs） consisting of Al_xGa_（1-x）As/Al_yGa_（1-y）As are constructed to discuss theoretically the optical absorption due to the intersubband transition of electrons for both symmetric and asymmetric cases with three energy levels of conduction bands. The electronic states in these structures are obtained using a finite element difference method. Based on a compact density matrix approach, the optical absorption induced by intersubband transition of electrons at room temperature is discussed. The results reveal that the peak positions and heights of intersubband optical absorption coefficients（IOACs） of DPQWs are sensitive to the barrier thickness, depending on Al component. Furthermore, external electric fields result in the decrease of peak, and play an important role in the blue shifts of absorption spectra due to electrons excited from ground state to the first and second excited states. It is found that the peaks of IOACs are smaller in asymmetric DPQWs than in symmetric ones. The results also indicate that the adjustable extent of incident photon energy for DPQW is larger than for a square one of a similar size. Our results are helpful in experiments and device fabrication.

Emergence of tunable intersubband-plasmonpolaritons in graphene superlattices

On-demand modification of the electronic band structures of high-mobility two-dimensional(2D)materials is of great interest for various applications that require rapid tuning of electrical and optical responses of solid-state devices.Although electrically tunable superlattice(SL)potentials have been proposed for band structure engineering of the Dirac electrons in graphene,the ultimate goal of engineering emergent quasiparticle excitations that can hybridize with light has not been achieved.We show that an extreme modulation of one-dimensional(1D)SL potentials in monolayer graphene produces ladder-like electronic energy levels near the Fermi surface,resulting in optical conductivity dominated by intersubband transitions(ISBTs).A specific and experimentally realizable platform comprising hBN-encapsulated graphene on top of a 1D periodic metagate and a second unpatterned gate is shown to produce strongly modulated electrostatic potentials.We find that Dirac electrons with large momenta perpendicular to the modulation direction are waveguided via total internal reflections off the electrostatic potential,resulting in flat subbands with nearly equispaced energy levels.The predicted ultrastrong coupling of surface plasmons to electrically controlled ISBTs is responsible for emergent polaritonic quasiparticles that can be optically probed.Our study opens an avenue for exploring emergent polaritons in 2D materials with gate-tunable electronic band structures.

A design scheme for interference suppression based on CWBIM

An interference suppression design scheme based on conjugate weighted butterfly interleaving mapping(CWBIM)is proposed for inter-carrier interference(ICI)and inter-subband interference(IBI)in the received signals of universal filtered multi-carrier(UFMC)systems.It applies an interleaving mapping operation to subtract the interference coefficients of adjacent terms in ICI and IBI twice,thereby achieving suppression effects similar to the self-cancellation(SC)algorithm while maintaining the original data transmission efficiency.Meanwhile,conjugate and complex weighting operations can effectively suppress the impact of phase rotation errors in high-speed mobile channel environments,thereby further improving the bit error rate(BFR)performance of the system,Moreover,butterfly operation can effectively control the computational complexity of the interleaving mapping process.Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that,compared with the PSC-UFMC algorithm,the CWBIM-UFMC scheme proposed in this paper can effectively suppress ICI and IBI in the received signal without compromising data transmission efficiency and reducing computational complexity,thereby achieving good BER performance of the system.

Magneto-polaron induced intersubband optical transition in a wide band gap Ⅱ–Ⅵ semiconductor quantum dot

Effects of LO-phonon contribution on the electronic and the optical properties are investigated in a Cdo.sZno.2 Se/ZnSe quantum dot in the presence of magnetic field strength. The magneto-polaron induced hydro- genic binding energy as a function of dot radius in the wide band gap quantum dot is calculated. The oscilla- tor strength and the spontaneous lifetime are studied taking into account the spatial confinement, magnetic field strength and the phonon contribution. Numerical calculations are carried out using variational formulism within the single band effective mass approximation. The optical properties are computed with the compact density matrix method. The magneto-polaron induced optical gain as a function of photon energy is observed. The results show that the optical telecommunication wavelength in the fiber optic communications can be achieved using CdSe/ZnSe semiconductors and it can be tuned with the proper applications of external perturbations.

Optical absorption via intersubband transition of electrons in GaAs/Al_xGa_(1-x)As multi-quantum wells in an electric field

Based on the effective mass approximation, the Schrodinger equation and Poisson equation in GaAs/AlGaAs multi-quantum wells(MQWs) are self-consistently solved to obtain the wave functions and energy levels of electrons in the conduction band for the ground first excited state by considering a lateral electric field(LEF). Then, the effects of size, ternary mixed crystal, doping concentration, and temperature on linear and nonlinear intersubband optical absorption coefficients(IOACs), and refractive index changes(RICs) due to the transition between ground states and the first excited states of electrons are discussed based on Fermi’s golden rule. The results show that, under a fixed LEF, with increase of A1 composition and doping concentration, the IOACs produce a red shift. With increases of both widths of the wells and barriers IOACs appear as blue shifts and their amplitudes increase, but the barrier width change is much more important to affect nonlinear IOACs, whereas increasing the temperature results in a blue shift first and then a red shift of IOACs. When the other parameters are fixed but there is an increase in the LEF, IOACs occur with a blue shift, and the RICs have similar properties.

半导体超晶格子带间跃迁光吸收理论研究

从理论上研究了半导体超晶格子带间跃迁的光吸收性质,以GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs超晶格为例进行数值计算,分析了该材料的吸收系数随入射光光子能量、光场强度和超晶格结构参量(阱宽,垒宽,势垒高)的变化关系·计算表明:随着入射光光子能量的变化,出现非对称的吸收峰;光强只改变吸收系数大小;超晶格结构参量会改变吸收谱的谱宽和吸收峰所对应的入射光频率·随着超晶格阱宽(垒宽)的增大,吸收谱由宽变窄,吸收峰红移;随着超晶格Al组分变大,吸收谱变窄·

多孔硅上生长Ge量子点的光学特性

采用量子尺寸的多孔硅作为衬底 ,利用区域优先成核在多孔硅表面上成功地生长了 Ge量子点 .由于量子限制效应锗的 PL 谱发生了明显的蓝移 ,计算表明在傅里叶红外光谱中观察到的中红外 (5— 6 μm)吸收峰是源于量子点中的亚能带跃迁 (两个重空穴能级之间的跃迁 ) ,这为

太赫兹Si/SiGe量子级联激光器的能带设计

使用nextnano^3模拟软件计算Si／Si1-xGex／Si量子阱的能带结构，对Si／SiGe量子级联激光器有源区的能带结构进行设计，结果表明使用Ge组分为0．27～0．3，量子阱宽度为3nm的SiGe合金与垒宽为3nm的Si层构成对称应变级联异质结构，有利于优化THz Si／SiGe量子级联激光器结构。

2.5THz量子级联激光器的研制

基于束缚态到连续态跃迁有源区能带结构，实现了2．5 THz量子级联激光器的连续波工作。激光器的输出频率随电流可在2．45-2．47 THz之间可调，在连续波工作模式下的最高输出功率大于6．0mw，最高连续波工作温度为60 K，阈值电流密度为120 A／cm2，经Si透镜整形后的输出光斑为高斯分布。

空间有序的量子点超晶格的红外吸收

利用分子束外延技术,在高温下(540℃)生长了具有三维空间有序的自组织InGaAs/GaAs量子点超晶格结构,利用傅里叶变换红外光谱仪测量到了明显的垂直入射吸收峰,中心响应波长在11μm.作为对比,在低温下(480℃)生长了相同的结构,傅里叶变换红外光谱几乎没有测量到明显的垂直入射吸收峰.高分辨率X射线双晶衍射测量表明高温生长的量子点超晶格具有更好的晶体质量,原子力显微镜测量表明在高温540℃下生长的量子点具有明显的横向有序;而在低温480℃下生长的量子点并没有显示出横向有序.在进行垂直入射的吸收测量时,为了扣除量子点超晶格的周期结构带来的干涉效应,提出使用生长条件完全相同但量子点区没有掺杂的样品作为背景,提高了测量的准确性及分辨率.结果表明空间有序的量子点超晶格结构比空间无序的量子点超晶格更适宜作红外探测器结构.