Eur. Phys. J. B (2013) 86: 244
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2013-31061-1

Regular Article

Effects of electric field and size on the electron-phonon interaction in a spherical quantum dot with impurity

College of Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, P.R. China

^a e-mail: zwyan101@126.com

Received: 22 November 2012
Received in final form: 24 January 2013
Published online: 3 June 2013

Abstract

The effects of electric field and size on the electron-phonon interaction with an on-center impurity in a Zn_1−xCd_xSe/ZnSe spherical quantum dot are studied, taking into account the interactions with confined, half-space and surface optical phonons. In addition, the interaction between impurity and phonons has also been considered. The results show that the electron-confined, electron-half-space, and electron-surface optical phonon interaction energies are all negative. The electron-confined optical phonon interaction energy is weakened by the electric field, but the electron-half-space and electron-surface optical phonon interaction energies are strengthened by it. In particular, the electron-surface optical phonon interaction depends strongly on the electric field, and it will vanish when the electric field is absent. It is also found that the electron-confined optical phonon interaction and electron-impurity “exchange” interaction energies reach a peak values as the quantum dot radius increases and then gradually decrease, but the electron-half-space optical phonon interaction energy exponentially quickly approaches 0 as the quantum dot radius increases.