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The first and naive attempt to deal with quantum wells (QW’s) and superlattices (SL’s) consists in modelling them with the help of an electric potential acting on the carriers. The material within the wells is taken into account only through the effective mass m* of the carriers, the effective mass value in the barrier being taken equal to that in the well. Such a description which is generally named “Idealized QW’s and SL’s” provides a lot of useful features.
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Tronc, P. (1995). Electrons and Holes in Quantum Structures. In: Balkanski, M., Yanchev, I. (eds) Fabrication, Properties and Applications of Low-Dimensional Semiconductors. NATO ASI Series, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0089-2_13
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