Impact of QW coupling on the binding energy in InGaN/GaN under the effects of the size, the impurity and the internal composition

• Main Authors: Belaid Walid, El Ghazi Haddou, Zorkani Izeddine, Jorio Anouar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: EDP Sciences 2020-01-01
• Series: MATEC Web of Conferences
• Online Access: https://www.matec-conferences.org/articles/matecconf/pdf/2020/26/matecconf_icome2019_01012.pdf

In the present paper, the binding energy of hydrogenic shallow-donor impurity in simple and double coupled quantum wells based on unstrained wurtzite (In,Ga)N/GaN is investigated. Considering the effective-mass and dielectric mismatches between the well and its surrounding matrix, the numerical calculations are performed within the framework of the parabolic band and the single band effective-mass approximations under the finite potential barrier using finite element method (FEM). According to our results, it appears that the main effect of the wells coupling is to enhance the binding energy. It is also obtained that the binding energy is strongly sensitive to the internal and external parameters and can be adjusted by the quantum well/barrier width, the impurity position and the internal Indium composition. Our results are in good agreement with the finding especially for those obtained by the variational approach.