Hot electron transport properties in characteristics of wurtzite GaN MESFETs using a Five-valley model



Título del documento: Hot electron transport properties in characteristics of wurtzite GaN MESFETs using a Five-valley model
Revue: Brazilian journal of physics
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000330147
ISSN: 0103-9733
Autores: 1
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Instituciones: 1Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Department of Physics, Mashhad. Irán
Año:
Periodo: Sep
Volumen: 40
Número: 3
Paginación: 267-272
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Experimental
Resumen en inglés Ensemble Monte Carlo simulations have been carried out to investigate the effects of upper valleys on the characteristics of wurtzite GaN MESFETs. Electronic states within the conduction band valleys at the Γ1, U, M, Γ3 and K are represented by non-parabolic ellipsoidal valleys centred on important symmetry points of the Brillouin zone. The following scattering mechanisims, i.e, impurity, polar optical phonon, acoustic phonon, alloy and piezoelectric are inculded in the calculation. Ionized imurity scattering has been treated beyound the Born approximation using the phase-shift analysis. The simulation results show that on the drain side of the gate region, hot electrons attained enough energy to be scattered into the upper satellite conduction valleys. Approximately %20 of the electrons occupy the higher valleys (mainly U and M valley). The simulated device geometries and doping are matched to the nominal parameters described for the experimental structures as closely as possible, and the predicted drain current and other electrical characteristics for the simulated device including upper valleys show much closer agreement with the available experimantal data
Disciplinas: Física y astronomía
Palabras clave: Acústica,
Física,
Física de partículas y campos cuánticos,
Optica,
Simulación de Montecarlo,
Valles elipsoidales,
Impurezas ionizadas,
Muestreo,
Electrónica,
Estado sólido
Keyword: Physics and astronomy,
Acoustics,
Optics,
Particle physics and quantum fields,
Physics,
Monte Carlo simulation,
Ellipsoidal valleys,
Ionized impurity,
Sampling,
Electronics,
Solid state
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