“…Andreev et al, 1999;Bellaiche et al, 1996;Bernard and Zunger, 1994;Cusack et al, 1996;Davies, 2000;Davies et al, 2002;Downes et al, 1997;Ellaway and Faux, 2002;Glas, 2001;Grundmann et al, 1995;Jiang and Singh, 1997;Johnson and Freund, 2001;Johnson et al, 1998;Keating, 1966;Korkusinski and Hawrylak, 2001;Makeev and Madhukar, 2003;Martin, 1970;Migliorato et al, 2002;Nishi et al, 1994;Pan and Yang, 2001;Pearson and Faux, 2000;Pryor, 1998;Pryor et al, 1998;Pryor et al, 1997;Romanov et al, 2001;Shin et al, 2003;Stillinger and Weber, 1985;Tadic et al, 2002;Yang et al, 1997;Yu and Madhukar, 1997a,b). The envelope function approach is attractive, simple and physically intuitive and thus widely used for both bulk semiconductors and nanostructures.…”