Phonon-Assisted Tunneling of an Electron in a Strained Self-Assembled Quantum Dot Molecule |
| M. Pochwała and P. Machnikowski
Institute of Physics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland |
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| Received: 7 06 2008; |
| We calculate phonon-assisted relaxation rates in a self-assembled quantum dot molecule. The calculation is based on wave functions obtained within an envelope function approach, including strain effects. The single-phonon relaxation is shown to be efficient for separations between the dots around 10 nm when, in addition, the dots are brought close to resonance. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.114.1285 PACS numbers: 73.21.La, 73.63.Kv, 63.20.kd |