Title: Bandstructure and electronic states in terahertz quantum cascade lasers

Authors: Jing Tao Lu, Jun Cheng Cao

Addresses: State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 865 Changning Road, Shanghai 200050, P.R. China. ' State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 865 Changning Road, Shanghai 200050, P.R. China

Abstract: Bandstructure and electron eigenstates in terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs) are studied by using the Quantum Transmitting Boundary Method (QTBM). It has several advantages compared to the commonly used Transfer Matrix Method (TMM). The numerical stability and efficiency make it more applicable in the study of semiconductor heterostructures with multiple quantum wells, such as quantum cascade lasers. It is also very flexible to treat different structures with only minor changes in the implementation.

Keywords: bandstructure; quantum transmitting boundary methods; QTBM; quantum cascade lasers; QCL; transfer matrix methods; TMM; nanotechnology; nanoscale technology; electron eigenstates.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2006.012771

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 2006 Vol.2 No.3/4, pp.189 - 191

Published online: 14 Mar 2007 *

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