The hydrostatic pressure and temperature effects on donor impurities in GaAs/Ga1-xAlxAs double quantum well under the external fields

Abstract

The combined effects of hydrostatic pressure and temperature on donor impurity binding energy in GaAs/Ga0.7Al0.3As double quantum well in the presence of the electric and magnetic fields which are applied along the growth direction have been studied by using a variational technique within the effective-mass approximation. The results show that an increment in temperature results in a decrement in donor impurity binding energy while an increment in the pressure for the same temperature enhances the binding energy and the pressure effects on donor binding energy are lower than those due to the magnetic field. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.