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Incomplete confinement of electrons and holes in microcrystals

Yōsuke KayanumaDepartment of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980, JapanHiroshi MomijiDepartment of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980, Japan
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Abstract

A simple variational calculation is presented for the ground-state energy of an electron-hole system confined in a microcrystal with finite potential barriers. It is shown that the effect of the penetration of the wave function outside the microcrystal is quite large in the strong-confinement region and is consistent with the relatively small blueshift of the excitation energy observed in CdS microcrystals.

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