CHARGED-IMPURITY SCATTERING IN GAINAS FETS

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作者
RIDLEY, BK
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[1] Department of Physics, University of Essex, Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ, Wivenhoe Park
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10.1016/0038-1101(91)90075-A
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A model for calculating the mobility of electrons in heavily doped bulk and quantum-well GaInAs is presented. It is shown that a very simple modification of Thomas-Fermi screening plus taking into account statistical screening gives good agreement with experiment in bulk material (GaAs, InP and GaInAs). The model is applied to a uniformly doped quantum well of GaInAs and it is shown that the weaker screening in the quasi-2D case compared with the 3D case reduces the mobility by up to a factor of 2. A rough estimate is made of the effect of delta-doping which suggests that the latter can enhance the mobility significantly.
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