Publications related to Finite potential well

Work fluctuations in the active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle model

We study the large deviations of the power injected by the active force for an active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle (AOUP), free or in a confining potential. For the free-particle case, we compute the rate function analytically in d-dimensions from a saddle- ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

On sums of eigenvalues of elliptic operators on manifolds

Joachim Stubbe

We use the averaged variational principle introduced in a recent article on graph spectra [10] to obtain upper bounds for sums of eigenvalues of several partial differential operators of interest in geometric analysis, which are analogues of Kroger's bound ...

European Mathematical Soc2017

On the physics of multimode polaritons

Claudéric Ouellet-Plamondon

This thesis is devoted to the study of microcavity polariton systems, in which the strong coupling occurs between more than one exciton or photon modes i.e. multimode polaritons. The first part of this work states the theoretical background of light-matter ...

EPFL2017

Low p-type contact resistance by field-emission tunneling in highly Mg-doped GaN

Nicolas Grandjean, Denis Martin, Hironori Okumura

Mg-doped GaN with a net acceptor concentration (NA-ND) in the high 10 19 cm(-3) range was grown using ammonia molecular-beam epitaxy. Electrical properties of NiO contact on this heavily doped p-type GaN were investigated. A potential-barrier height of 0.2 ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Band-to-band tunneling distance analysis in the heterogate electron-hole bilayer tunnel field-effect transistor

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Cem Alper, José Luis Padilla de la Torre

In this work, we analyze the behavior of the band-to-band tunneling distance between electron and hole subbands resulting from field-induced quantum confinement in the heterogate electron-hole bilayer tunnel field-effect transistor. We show that, analogous ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Multiple polariton modes originating from the coupling of quantum wells in planar microcavity

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Daniel Oberli, Fauzia Jabeen, Claudéric Ouellet-Plamondon, Grégory Chilpéric Sallen

We report on the observation of multiple polariton modes, originating from an electronic coupling between quantum wells inside a planar microcavity. A series of excitonic transitions are measured for a bare quantum well stack and are precisely identified t ...

American Physical Society2015

Assessment of phase-field-crystal concepts using long-time molecular dynamics

William Curtin, Kristopher Learion Baker

The ability of the phase-field-crystal (PFC) model to quantitatively predict atomistic defect structures in crystalline solids is addressed. First, general aspects of the PFC model are discussed within the context of obtaining quantitative results in solid ...

American Physical Society2015

Quantum Wire - Quantum Dot Systems Grown in Inverted Pyramids

Justyna Szeszko

Semiconductor quantum wires (QWRs) and quantum dots (QDs) are nanoscale heterostructures, which form fascinating low-dimensional systems for fundamental studies of quantum-mechanical effects and are attractive candidates for integration into optoelectronic ...

EPFL2013

Monte Carlo modeling of crystal channeling at high energies

Alessio Ferrari, Philippe Jean Schoofs, Francesco Cerutti

Channeling in bent crystals is becoming a reliable and efficient technique for collimating beams. At CERN, the installation of crystals in LHC is under scrutiny by the UA9 collaboration with the goal of investigating if they are a viable option for the col ...

Elsevier2013

Efficiency of random search procedures along the silicon cluster series Sin (n=5-10, 15 and 20)

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Fabrice Avaltroni

The efficiency of the simplest isomeric search procedure consisting in random generation of sets of atomic coordinates followed by density functional theory geometry optimization is tested on the silicon cluster series (Si-5-10,Si-15,Si-20). Criteria such ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

Portrait of the potential barrier at metal-organic nanocontacts

Klaus Kern

Electron transport through metal-molecule contacts greatly affects the operation and performance of electronic devices based on organic semiconductors(1-4) and is at the heart of molecular electronics exploiting single-molecule junctions(5-8). Much of our ...

2010

Engineering the spatial confinement of exciton polaritons in semiconductors

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Vincenzo Savona, Jean-Daniel Ganière, François Morier-Genoud, Taofiq Paraïso, Ounsi El Daïf, Reda Idrissi Kaitouni, Pierre Lugan

We demonstrate three-dimensional spatial confinement of exciton-polaritons in a semiconductor microcavity. Polaritons are confined within a micron-sized region of slightly larger cavity thickness, called mesa, through lateral trapping of their photon compo ...

2006

Localization-dependent photoluminescence spectrum of biexcitons in semiconductor quantum wires

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Vincenzo Savona, Andrea Feltrin, Xiao Wang

We study exciton and biexciton spectra in disordered semiconductor quantum wires by means of nanophotoluminescence spectroscopy. We demonstrate a close link between the exciton localization length along the wire and the occurrence of a biexciton spectral l ...

2005