Abstract
Quantum dots in nanowires grow on a (111) substrate and it is expected that the modifications of the band structure due to a biaxial strain in the (111) crystallographic plane will determine the confinement of charge carriers in these systems. In this work, we develop an ab initio methodology for the determination of biaxial strain-modified band energies on an absolute energy scale due to a strain in an arbitrary crystallographic plane and apply it to calculate the evolution of band edges in group IIIA-VA zinc-blende semiconductors (InP, InAs, and GaAs) under the (111) biaxial strain. The absolute hydrostatic deformation potentials, a prerequisite for the accurate calculation of the strain-modified band energies within our scheme, are determined. The strain tensor for an InAs dot grown on a (111) GaAs substrate is calculated and the importance of the (111) biaxial strain is demonstrated. The strained band offsets in InAs under a compressive biaxial strain in the (001) and (111) crystallographic planes as well as the local band structure in a InAs/GaAs dot indicates a stronger confinement of holes in the (111) case.
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