Optical properties of ZnSSe/ZnMgSSe quantum wells

We study the electronic structure and excitonic properties of single quantum wells through an exact treatment of the Pikus - Bir Hamiltonian. In the ZnSe well, we find three distinguished exciton peaks in the absorption spectra, which are associated with the n = 1 and 2 heavy holes (HH1 and HH2) and n = 1 light hole (LH1), in good agreement with experiments. As the S content of the well increases, the HH1 exciton peak increases more rapidly than the LH1 peak, and a severe overlap between these two peak appears at x = 0.1. The binding energy of the HH1 exciton also increases with the S content; however, its maximum value decreases because of the decreasing confinement effect in the well.

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