Investigation the three dimensional bound states in quantum dot nanowire systems

Abstract

Electronic confined states of a cylindrical InP quantum dot embedded in infinite GaP nanowire is studied theoretically. To this end the Schrodinger equation is solved numerically in the effective mass approximation. The subband separation between the GaP nanowire and InP/GaP core–shell nanowire is utilized to predict the possible existence of the three dimensionally confined states of the system. Using this, the nanowire critical radius is calculated for each channel of angular momentum, the frontier of type I-Type II transition in the InP/GaP quantum dot nanowire system. It is shown that the lower limit of the continuum energy depends on the angular momentum and increases by it, causing discrete bound states of higher angular momentum to lie in the continuum of the lower ones. Surviving the energy states in the presence of external magnetic field reveals stronger confinement for electrons in states with negative angular momentum quantum numbers.