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Chuang, Shun-Lien Chao, Calvin Yi-Ping 2011-05-07T11:56:43Z 2011-05-07T11:56:43Z 10000-01-01 1992 The valence-band structure of a semiconductor quantum well is calculated based on the multiband effective-mass theory. A unitary transformation is found to diagonalize the six-by-six Luttinger-Kohn Hamiltonian into two three-by-three blocks, making the computation more efficient. With this new formulation, the effect of strain on the band structure is studied systematically for both the compressional and tensile strain. The importance of the coupling between the heavy-hole, light-hole bands and the spin-orbit split-off bands is especially pointed out. The resonant tunneling of holes through a double-barrier structure is investigated using a transfer-matrix technique. It is shown that the strong mixing between the heavy holes and the light holes results in a totally different I-V characteristic from that predicted previously by the parabolic-band model. The exciton equation in momentum space is solved by using a modified Gaussian quadrature method. The exact solutions for a pure-two-dimensional exciton are derived by means of the Mehler-Fock transform, and the accuracy of the quadrature method is checked by comparing the numerical solutions against the exact solutions. A complete theory for quantum-well excitons is developed taking into account the effects of the valence-band mixing and the intersubband Coulomb interaction. Optical absorption spectra are calculated and compared to experimental data. The comparison demonstrates that the theory explains very well the quantum-confined Stark effect, the polarization selection rule, the coupling between the interwell and intrawell excitons in a multiwell structure, and the anticrossing between the ground state of a light-hole exciton and the excited state of a heavy-hole exciton observed experimentally. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T11:56:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9236417.pdf: 5235828 bytes, checksum: 75e68869cea9888152d1b069331a8fb6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1992 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:34:36Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:13:19-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9236417 (UMI)AAI9236417 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/19093 eng Copyright 1992 Chao, Calvin Yi-Ping Engineering, Electronics and Electrical Physics, Electricity and Magnetism Physics, Condensed Matter Theoretical studies of the optoelectronic properties of semiconductor quantum wells text Electrical and Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.