简介:Thesubbandstructures,distributionsofelectronandholewavefunctions,statedensity,opticalgainspectra,andtransparencycarrierdensityoftheV-grooveZn1-xCdxSe/ZnSequantumwiresareinvestigatedtheoreticallyusingfourbandeffective-massHamiltonian,whichtakesintoaccounttheeffectsofthevalencebandanisotropyandthebandmixing.Thebiaxialstraineffectforquantumwiresisincludedinthecalculation.ThecompressivestrainintheZn1-xCdxSewireregionincreasestheenergyseparationbetweentheuppermostsubbands.Theopticalgainwithxy-polarizedlightisenhanced,whileopticalgainwithz-polarizedlightisstronglydecreased.Thexy-polarizedopticalgainspectrumhasapeakataround2.541Ev,withthetransparencycarrierdensityof0.75×1018 cm-3.Thecalculatedresultsalsoshowthatthestraintendstoincreasethequantumconfinementandenhancetheanisotropyoftheopticaltransitions.