ELECTRON AND HOLE INPLANE MOBILITIES IN HGTE-CDTE SUPERLATTICES

被引:34
作者
MEYER, JR [1 ]
ARNOLD, DJ [1 ]
HOFFMAN, CA [1 ]
BARTOLI, FJ [1 ]
RAMMOHAN, LR [1 ]
机构
[1] WORCESTER POLYTECH INST,WORCESTER,MA 01609
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1992年 / 46卷 / 07期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.46.4139
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T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Using a recently developed formalism for free-carrier transport in semiconductor superlattices with interacting quantum wells, we have calculated in-plane mobilities for electrons and holes in HgTe-CdTe heterostructures. Details of the highly nonparabolic and anisotropic band structures are fully incorporated into the theory, and the previous treatment of interface roughness scattering in quasi-two-dimensional structures has been generalized to account for superlattices with significant interwell interactions. Our results accurately account for a number of distinctive features in the experimental data, and good agreement between theory and experiment is obtained.
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页码:4139 / 4146
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