Confinement effect in a quantum well dot induced by an InP stressor

We have calculated the confinement effect in an In_1−xGa_xAs/GaAs quantum well dot induced by a dislocation-free InP stressor island. The energy levels were calculated by including the strain interaction and the band-edge confinement in the Luttinger-Kohn Hamiltonian. The maximum level spacing for the dipole-allowed interband E1→HH1 line spectrum was 20 meV. Our calculation also gives excellent agreement with recent measurements [H. Lipsanen, M. Sopanen, and J. Ahopelto, Phys. Rev. B 51, 13 868 (1995)] and provides indirect evidence of screened Coulomb interaction, tentatively addressed to slow carrier relaxation.