We study the effect of tunneling on the electronic structure of two vertically coupled quantum rings within the spin density functional theory. The ground state configurations of the coupled rings are obtained for a system with 10 electrons as a function of the ring radius and the inter-ring distance. For small ring radius, our results recover those of coupled quantum dots. For large ring radius, new ground state configurations are found in the strong tunneling regime.

The effective magnetoconductivity tensor of selectively doped heterostructures with non-screened potential is evaluated for high-frequency regime. The lateral inhomogeneity of the donor distribution in the structure results in a large-scale variation of the energy levels. The contribution due to such inhomogeneity takes place in addition to the standard Drude mechanism of absorption and this mechanism is dominant for the high-frequency regime.

We present a theoretical study on the electron mobility and scattering mechanism in a remotely doped AlGaAs wide parabolic quantum well. Electron mobilities in different subbands are calculated from the self-consistent results of the subband energy and wavefunction in the system. The scattering due to ionized impurities and alloy disorder is considered. We show theinterplay of the different scattering mechanisms.

We study, the Coulomb scattering lifetimes of electrons in two coupled quantum wires by calculating the quasiparticle self-energy within a multisubband model of quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) electron system. We consider two strongly coupled quantum wires with two occupied subbands. The intrasubband and intersubband inelastic scattering rates are caculated for electrons in different subbands. Contributions of the intrasubband, intersubband plasmon excitations, as well as the quasiparticle excitations are investigated. Our results show that the plasmon exictations of the first subband are the most important scattering mechanism for electrons in both subbands.