| Issue |
EPL
Volume 85, Number 3, February 2009
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 37003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/85/37003 | |
| Published online | 13 February 2009 | |
Spin splitting of conduction subbands in Al0.3Ga0.7As/GaAs/AlxGa
As/Al0.3Ga0.7As step quantum wells
Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials Science, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences - P.O. Box 912, Beijing 100083, PRC
Corresponding author: yhchen@semi.ac.cn
Received:
1
September
2008
Accepted:
12
January
2009
By means of the transfer matrix technique, interface-induced
Rashba spin splitting of conduction subbands in Al0.3Ga0.7As/GaAs/AlxGa
As/Al0.3Ga0.7As
step quantum wells which contain internal structure inversion asymmetry introduced by the insertion of AlxGaAs step potential is investigated theoretically in the absence of electric
field and magnetic field. The dependence of spin splitting on the well
width, step width and Al concentration is investigated in detail. We find that the sign of the first excited subband spin splitting
changes with well width and step width, and is opposite to that of the ground subband under certain conditions. The sign and strength
of the spin splitting are shown to be sensitive to the components of the envelope function at three interfaces.
PACS: 71.70.Ej – Spin-orbit coupling, Zeeman and Stark splitting, Jahn-Teller effect / 71.23.An – Theories and models; localized states
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