Plasmons in finite type-II semiconductor multilayers

Abstract

We study finite type-II semiconductor multilayers consisting of alternate layers of two-dimensional electron and hole carriers. The collective excitation is investigated with use of the coupled Boltzmann equations. We obtain the equation determining the plasma modes for N (even) layers. For N=6, we have shown the numerical results for two cases of different electron and hole masses. The total number of plasmons, and the existence of Giuliani-Quinn surface plasmons which are not Landau damped, depend on the parameters used. © 1988 The American Physical Society.