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A simplified analysis of the electronic contribution to the elastic constants in ultrathin films of stressed semiconductors under magnetic quantization

Kamakhya P. Ghatak, +2 more
- 30 Apr 2001 - 
- Vol. 282, Iss: 6, pp 428-432
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In this paper, an attempt was made to study the electronic contribution to the second and third-order elastic constants in ultrathin films of strained semiconductors under magnetic quantization in the presence of broadening on the basis of a newly formulated electron dispersion law.
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On the two dimensional effective electron mass in quantum wells, inversion layers and NIPI superlattices of Kane type semiconductors in the presence of strong light waves: Simplified theory and relative comparison

TL;DR: In this article, an attempt is made to study the two dimensional (2D) effective electron mass (EEM) in quantum wells (Qws), inversion layers (ILs) and NIPI superlattices of Kane type semiconductors in the presence of strong external photoexcitation on the basis of a newly formulated electron dispersion laws within the framework of k.p. formalism.
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Simple theoretical analysis of the photoemission from quantum confined effective mass superlattices of optoelectronic materials

TL;DR: It appears, taking HgTe/Hg1−xCdxTe and InxGa1+xAs/InP effective mass superlattices, that the photoemission from these quantized structures is enhanced with increasing photon energy in quantized steps and shows oscillatory dependences with the increasing carrier concentration.
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Thermoelectric power in ultrathin films, quantum wires and carbon nanotubes under classically large magnetic field: Simplified theory and relative comparison

TL;DR: In this article, the thermoelectric power under classically large magnetic field (TPM) in ultrathin films (UFs), quantum wires (QWs) of nonlinear optical materials on the basis of a newly formulated electron dispersion law considering the anisotropies of the effective electron masses, the spin-orbit splitting constants and the presence of the crystal field splitting within the framework of kp formalism.
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On the two-dimensional thermoelectric power in quantum wells of non-parabolic materials under magnetic quantization

TL;DR: In this article, a simplified theoretical formulation of the thermoelectric power (TP) under magnetic quantization in quantum wells (QWs) of nonlinear optical materials on the basis of a newly formulated magneto-dispersion law is presented.
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Applications and Brief Review of Experimental Results

TL;DR: In this article, the authors have discussed many aspects of TPSM based on the dispersion relations of the nanostructures of different technologically important materials having different band structures in the presence of 1D, 2D, and 3D confinements of the wavevector space of the charge carriers, respectively.
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On the Einstein relation in stressed Kane type semiconductors in the presence of an arbitrarily oriented quantizing magnetic field

K P Ghatak, +1 more
- 01 Jul 1990 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of varying the orientation of a quantizing magnetic field on the Einstein relation for the diffusivity-mobility ratio of the electrons in stressed Kane-type semiconductors, taking stressed n-InSb as an example, were investigated theoretically.
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