Notation: ......

correction place

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The properties of the energy states of a conduction band electron interacting with a donor impu- rity
center in spherical sector-shaped GaAs-(Ga,Al)As quantum dots are theoretically investigated. The stu

The properties of the ....conduction band energy states of an electron interacting with a donor impu- rity
center in spherical sector-shaped GaAs-(Ga,Al)As quantum dots are theoretically investigated. The stu

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function via ....the finite element method.

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changes in the.....conical structure geometry (radius and apical angle) as

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charge carriers in them is constrained ........to have only well-defined energy values

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GaAs whiskers ......for light emit- ting devices is a source of per

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QDS using......the finite element method (FEM) ca

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with spherical upper .......cap [

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with spherical upper ......cap as can be

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structure incorporates a ..... potential energy well (V0 = 0) that can be practically achieved by embedding
the dot sys

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electron and the......ionized donor impurity cente

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implies that......the Ben-Daniel-Duke type matching con

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Figure 2, it would be nice to incluye the coordínate axis

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outer region ......of a......cubic parallelepiped (s

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To proceed ......with the current problem,

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located along the....symmetry axis

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Fig. 3 indicate the .....states degeneration degree that have been shown.

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The slight increase in this quantity for the nar- rower conical dot (the binding energy curve in Fig. 3(a) is
blueshifted with respect to the corresponding results in Fig. 3(b)).
.........this sentence is incomplete

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near the .....cone gravity center

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It seems to be an inconsistency:
By decreasing the cone an- gle, Fig. 3(a), two effects appear:.............

And later in the paragraph........

This second effect translates into an effective decrease in electron-impurity distance, which, combined
with the increase in geometric confinem.........the decrease of geometric?

In figure 5 there is an increase of the electron-impurity distace when comparing 20 with 40 degrees

Include a reference to figure 5 for this discussion

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probability density in....the region adjacent to the cone vert

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There are also anticrossings in figure 4 which may need some discussion
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the ...... first five confined state wave functions of an electron in a spherical cone-sha

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it is approximately an even function with respect to the z =

...................it is approximately an even function ....is this clear?

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This is a phase effect introduced by the calculation method and which ........requires attention when
studying optical properties that involve linear polariza- tions of the incident radiation

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The displacement of the......impurity center location

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These minima are associated to the rela- tion between the.....state symmetry and the.....cone symme- try

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the calculated squared of.......the reduced elements Mf i = M ̃ f i /e.

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and the Ψ3 and Ψ4 states, which are degenerated, have ......py and px symmetry respectively

.......if it refer to figure 5

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Here is the place where we must clarify the reason why in our studies we have proceeded to solve the full
3D problem of the differential equation,

.......in my opinion this discussion should be reformulated since in the symmetrical problem you can
always transform to (x,y,z) coordinates

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The coefficient of optical absorption is then evaluated using .......Eq. (2) for intersub