Temperature and Doping Dependencies of Electron Mobility in InAs, AlAs and AlGaAs at High Electric Field Application



Título del documento: Temperature and Doping Dependencies of Electron Mobility in InAs, AlAs and AlGaAs at High Electric Field Application
Revue: Brazilian journal of physics
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000403302
ISSN: 0103-9733
Autores: 1
2
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Instituciones: 1Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Department of Physics, Mashhad. Irán
2Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar. Irán
Año:
Periodo: Sep
Volumen: 38
Número: 3A
Paginación: 293-296
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico
Resumen en inglés Temperature and doping dependencies of electron mobility in InAs, AlAs and AlGaAs structures have been calculated using an ensemble Monte Carlo simulation. Electronic states within the conduction band valleys at the Γ, L and X are represented by non-parabolic ellipsoidal valleys centred on important symmetry points of the Brillouin zone. The simulation shows that intervalley electron transfer plays a dominant role in high electric fields leading to a strongly inverted electron distribution and to a large negative differential conductance. Our simulation results have also shown that the electron velocity in InAs and AlAs is less sensitive to temperature than in other III-V semiconductors like GaAs and AlGaAs. So InAs and AlAs devices are expected be more tolerant to self-heating and high ambient temperature device modeling. Our steady-state velocity-field characteristics are in fair agreement with other recent calculations
Disciplinas: Física y astronomía
Palabras clave: Física de materia condensada,
Estado sólido,
Movilidad de electrones,
Semiconductores
Keyword: Physics and astronomy,
Condensed matter physics,
Solid state,
Electron mobility,
Semiconductors
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