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Abstract: The hydrogenic impurity binding energy in rectangular quantum well wire including both barriers of finite height and an applied electric field are studied. The polaron effects on the ground-state binding energy in electric field are investigated by means of Landau-Pekar variation technique. The results for the binding energy as well as polaronic correction are obtained as a function of the size of the wire, the applied electric field and the position of the impurity. Our calculations are compared with previous results in quantum wires of comparable dimensions. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The hot-electron energy-loss rate conditioned by confined and interface polar-optical phonons for a Cd0.35Zn0.65Se quantum wire embedded in ZnSe medium is investigated theoretically. It is shown that the inclusion of the polar-optical phonon confinement effects is crucial for accurate calculation of the energy-loss rate in quantum wire. Taking into account the nonequilibrium phonon populations, the hot-electron energy-loss rate is derived by a model, which includes the lowest subband occupation and the phonon confinement effects. The contribution of intersubband transitions to electron energy-loss rate as well as the relaxation time of the electron temperature with and without hot-phonon bottleneck effect is estimated. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

In the framework of effective mass approximation the polaron problem in double quantum ring structures in the presence of perpendicular electric and magnetic fields with taken into account the effect of phonon confinement is considered. We derived general expressions for the normalized eigenfunctions of the confined optical and interface optical phonon modes and the dispersion relation for interface optical phonons as well as electron–confined optical phonon and electron–interface optical phonon Fröhlich interaction Hamiltonians in the double quantum ring system. Results reveal that the electron–optical phonon coupling leads to the decrease of the electron ground state energy. We have shown that the polaron energy exhibits a pronounced local maximum (minimuum) in dependence on an electric (magnetic) field which corresponds to the sharp decrease (increase) of the polaronic contributions due to confined optical and interface optical phonon modes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]