CARRIER VELOCITY-FIELD CHARACTERISTICS AND ALLOY SCATTERING POTENTIAL IN SI1-XGEX/SI

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LI, SH
HINCKLEY, JM
SINGH, J
BHATTACHARYA, PK
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[1] Solid-State Electronics Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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10.1063/1.109687
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The alloy scattering potential is an important parameter in SiGe alloys since it not only affects the velocity-field characteristics for carrier transport, but also allows increased optical transitions by relaxing k-selection rules. In this letter, we report on the velocity-field measurements for relaxed and coherently strained SiGe alloys. The alloy scattering potential is obtained from a careful fit to the data. The hole velocity at any field is found to have a bowing behavior as a function of alloy composition. This reflects a strong alloy scattering potential which is calculated to be 0.6 eV for the valence band.
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