Binding energies of excitons in II-VI compound-semiconductor based quantum well structures

We present a brief description of the calculation of the variation of the binding energy of the heavy-hole exciton as a function of well width in quantum well structures composed of II-VI compound semiconductors including the effects of exciton-optical phonon interaction as formulated by Pollmann and Buttner [J. Pollmann and H. Buttner, Phys. Rev. B 16, 4480 (1977)], and of particle masses and dielectric mismatches between the well and the barrier layers. We compare the results of our calculations with the available experimental data in ZnSe/MgS, ZnSe/Mg0.15Zn0.85Se, and ZnS/Mg0.19Zn0.81S quantum well structures and find a good agreement. (C) 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.