Piezo-Phototronic Effect in a Quantum Well Structure

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• 作者：Xin Huang ; Chunhua Du ; Yongli Zhou ; Chunyan Jiang ; Xiong Pu ; Wei Liu ; Weiguo Hu ; Hong Chen ; Zhong Lin Wang
• 刊名：ACS Nano
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May 24, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：10
• 期：5
• 页码：5145-5152
• 全文大小：526K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1936-086X

文摘

With enhancements in the performance of optoelectronic devices, the field of piezo-phototronics has attracted much attention, and several theoretical works have been reported based on semiclassical models. At present, the feature size of optoelectronic devices are rapidly shrinking toward several tens of nanometers, which results in the quantum confinement effect. Starting from the basic piezoelectricity equation, Schrödinger equation, Poisson equation, and Fermi’s golden rule, a self-consistent theoretical model is proposed to study the piezo-phototronic effect in the framework of perturbation theory in quantum mechanics. The validity and universality of this model are well-proven with photoluminescence measurements in a single GaN/InGaN quantum well and multiple GaN/InGaN quantum wells. This study provides important insight into the working principle of nanoscale piezo-phototronic devices as well as guidance for the future device design.