Project Details
Projekt
Elektronische Zustände in Halbleiter-Nanostrukturen und Upscaling auf semiklassische Modelle
Applicant
Dr. Jürgen Fuhrmann
Subject Area
Mathematics
Term
from 2000 to 2008
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5276152
Already at present time, the design of state of the art optoelectronic devices like semiconductor lasers is based on semiconductor nanostructures. The role of semiconductor nanostructures will increase in the future due to the advent of quantum electronic devices which is assisted by the increasing sophistication of fabrication technology. To unterstand and to predict the physical properties of such devices, new theoretical techniques for the computation of their electronic states are required. The ab initio solution of the many electron Schrödinger equations on the microscopic scale fails due to its computational effort. To overcome the computational burden, it appears to be natural to utilize the presence of two scales inherent to the problem - the mesoscopic scale of the variation of the materials in the nanostructure and the microscopic scale of the atoms of each material. The most promising approach in this direction has been proposed by Burt, who introduces envelope functions, which describe the slowly varying mesoscopic part of the locally highly oscillating microscopic wave functions. Burt points out a way to derive equations for the envelope functions in terms of the microscopic potential. In the result, one arrives at pseudodifferential equations for the envelope functions in real space or integral equations for Fourier transformed envelope functions. The aim of this project is a mathematically well understood presentation of Burt's approach, its precise formulation together with an investigation of the involved operators and the development of efficient numerical methods for solving the arising equations. On success, an efficient modeling and simulation tool for nanostructures will be available for physicists and engineers.
DFG Programme
Priority Programmes
Participating Persons
Dr. Hans-Christoph Kaiser; Dr. Gunther Schmidt
