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Stark effect and excitonic tunneling escape process in semiconductor quantum wells

Journal of Applied Physics, ISSN: 0021-8979, Vol: 76, Issue: 9, Page: 4983-4988
1994
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In this work, we have numerically integrated in space and time the effective mass Schrödinger equation for an exciton in a semiconductor quantum-well structure. Considering a Coulomb interaction between the electron-hole pair and an external electric field, we have studied the excitonic tunneling escape process from semiconductor quantum wells. Our method of calculation has been applied to types-I, -II, and -III quantum-well superlattices. In addition, we present the calculated excitonic lifetimes for the GaAs/GaAlAs, InAs/GaSb, and HgTe/HgCdTe systems under an external electric field. In the HgTe/CdTe system, the possibility of having similar electron and hole lifetime values is also found if the applied electric field is large enough.

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