Boundary conditions for the electronic structure of finite-extent, embedded semiconductor nanostructures

Abstract

The modeling of finite-extent semiconductor nanostructures that are embedded in a host material requires the numerical treatment of the boundary in a finite simulation domain. For the study of a self-assembled InAs dot embedded in GaAs, three kinds of boundary conditions are examined within the empirical tight-binding model: (i) the periodic boundary condition, (ii) raising the orbital energies of surface atoms, and (iii) raising the energies of dangling bonds at the surface. The periodic boundary condition requires a smooth boundary and consequently a larger GaAs buffer than the two nonperiodic boundary conditions. Between the nonperiodic conditions, the dangling-bond energy shift is more efficient than the orbital-energy shift, in terms of the elimination of nonphysical surface states in the middle of the gap. A dangling-bond energy shift bigger than 5 eV efficiently eliminates all of the mid-gap surface states and leads to interior states that are highly insensitive to the change of the energy shift.

20 pages, 9 figures

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