UNIQUE PROPERTIES OF ZnO QUANTUM RINGS

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Submitted: 2025-02-10; Published: 2025-02-10

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Abstract

Electronic states and optical transitions of a ZnO quantum ring containing few interacting electrons in an applied magnetic field are found to be very different from those in a conventional semiconductor system, such as a GaAs ring. Strong Zeeman and Coulomb interactions of the ZnO system, exert a profound influence on the electron states and on the optical properties of the ring. In particular, our results indicate that the Aharonov– Bohm effect in a ZnO quantum ring strongly depends on the