Binding Energy of Impurity in a Size Quantized Coated Semiconductor Wire: Role of the Dielectric-Constant Mismatch

Abstract

Within the framework of staircase infinitely deep (SIW) potential well model the effect of dielectric constant mismatch between the size-quantized semiconducting wire, coating and surrounding environment on impurity binding energy is considered. Calculations are done in both the absence and presence of magnetic field applied along the wire axis. By the variation method the dependences of binding energy of hydrogen-like impurity located on the wire axis on the alloy concentration, effective mass ratio, dielectric constant mismatch and magnetic field are found for the GaAs-Ga_{1-x}Al_{x}AS system.