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Experimental works managing electrical injection of spin polarization in n-type and p-type silicon have been recently carried out up to room-temperature. In spite of these promising experimental results, a comprehensive theoretical framework concerning the influence of transport conditions on phonon-induced electron spin depolarization in silicon structures, in a wide range of values of lattice temperature,...
The implementation of lateral doping profiles on quantum transport simulations of ultra-scaled transistors will affect their electrical characteristics. This work presents a systematic study of the impact of lateral doping profiles when the gate length of silicon Trigate FinFETs is scaled down from 6.6 nm to 5.4 nm.
We show that with a Full-Band dispersion, the specific heat is closer to the experimental value than with an isotropic quadratic dispersion. So we use a Full-Band dispersion in the transport algorithm. A Monte Carlo algorithm has been developed to simulate phonon transport in silicon nanowire. It has been successfully used to simulate the thermal conductivity.
Multi-scale modelling of the electron transport via a metal-semiconductor interface is carried out by coupling ab initio calculations (DFT) with three-dimensional finite element ensemble Monte Carlo simulations. The results for the Mo/GaAs (001) interface show that variations of the electronic properties with the distance from the interface have a strong impact on the transport characteristics. In...
We derive a local equation of motion for the electronic single-particle density matrix in the presence of one- as well as two-body scattering processes. This is done by applying the mean-field approximation to the many-electron dynamics obtained via a recently proposed Markov limit, able to furnish many-body Lindblad-type scattering superoperators. The resulting time evolution at finite/high carrier...
Starting from a density-matrix treatment of carrier-phonon interaction based on a recent reformulation of the Markov limit, we provide a detailed investigation of phonon-induced quantum diffusion in semiconductor nanostructures. In particular, as for the case of carrier-carrier relaxation in photoex-cited semiconductors, our analysis shows the failure of simplified dephasing models in describing phonon-induced...
Hole mobility in ultra-thin body (UTB) InSb-OI devices is calculated by a microscopic approach. An adaptive grid algorithm is employed to discretize 2-D k space. The accurate valence band structures are obtained via solving the 6-band k·p Schrödinger and Poisson equations self-consistently. Hole mobility is computed using the Kubo-Greenwood formalism accounting for nonpolar acoustic and optical phonons,...
The effect of exchange interaction on the scattering probabilities of two electrons injected simultaneously from different sources into a tunneling barrier is analyzed using time-dependent antisymmetric wave functions. Quantum noise for two electrons is calculated using this algorithm showing excellent agreement with Bu¨ttiker results for typical scenarios, while new results are obtained for more...
Electron transport properties of GaN-based heterostructures are investigated by means of a Monte Carlo model, which considers a large number of subbands in several valleys. Room-temperature low-field mobility consistent with experimental results is obtained provided that screening of phonon scattering is accounted for. In intrinsic heterostructures the mobility is always greater than in bulk GaN....
As the characteristic size of the devices is now reaching the sub-15 nm range, it has become essential to assess the effects of quantum corrections on the electrical performances. The Non-Equilibrium Green's Functions (NEGF) method is one of the most versatile frameworks for that purpose. It can deal with quantum confinement, elastic and inelastic scattering in a seamless way. Although numerically...
Accurate band structure modeling is an essential ingredient in mobility modeling for any kind of semiconductor device or channel. This is particularly true for holes as the valence band of the most commonly used semiconductor materials is not even close to being parabolic. Instead, valence bands exhibit warped energy surfaces that simply cannot be approximated with parabolic valleys. To make matters...
We developed a model for the exact calculation of the absorption spectrum in disordered heterostructures allowing the understanding of the lineshape in terms of the contributions from intra-subband and inter-subband scatterings. A dopant engineering of the inter-subband lineshape is proposed.
In this work we calculate the impact of remote SO phonon scattering on the transfer characteristics of gate-all-around Si nanowire transistors. The polar SO phonons are confined to the HfO2/Si interface. Nanowire transistors with two different cross-sections are considered. The results show that the impact on the drain current is of the same order and of the same importance as other commonly used...
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