Research Article

Energy Levels in Nanowires and Nanorods with a Finite Potential Well

Table 2

Material parameters of InAs and InP.

Material parameters

InAs0.360.0230.410.0264.912.650.972.630.380.520.47
InP1.350.0770.650.0964.390.630.090.60.11

Eg is the band gap, me/m0 is the effective mass of the electron in the conduction band, mlh/m0 and mhh/m0 are the effective masses of light and heavy holes in the valence band, χ is the electron affinity, αi is the nonparabolicity coefficient, and Δ0 is spin-orbit interaction.