EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL PLUS, cilt.137, sa.3, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
Using the compact density matrix scheme and the effective mass approximation, we study the influence of position-dependent electron and heavy-hole mass distributions on the impurity-related electronic properties, excitonic binding, and intersubband electron transitions in a two-dimensional quantum dot with Gaussian potential. The electronic structure has been obtained by using the two-dimensional diagonalization method. The obtained results show the significant influence of the functional form of the spatial mass distribution and structural geometry on the accurate determination of the impurity-related electronic structure, optical response, electron-hole overlap, and, therefore, the carrier lifetimes in the optoelectronic devices based on quantum dots.