Abstract
The phonon dispersion in semiconductor superlattices is studied in the adiabatic bond-charge model. The complex phonon dispersion relations of the constituent bulk materials are obtained via the eigenvalue method in a zeroth-order calculation, which includes only short range forces and Coulomb interactions between ions and bond charges in the same and neighboring layers. The eigenmode displacements of the superlattice are obtained by matching the eigenvectors associated with complex phonon branches at the interfaces. The effect of the remaining Coulomb interactions are then included in the first-order approximation. The results for the superlattice phonon frequencies compare favorably with the existing experimental data.
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