Advanced Electronics

Abstract

The Space Electronics Technology Branch (RVSW) is conducting a first time experimental and theoretical investigation focused on evaluating new physical phenomena in the quasi-quantum regime in which the hole mobility tends to exceed the electron mobility, and the electron reaches the group velocity in 2-D materials. These phenomena are due to a dramatic reduction of the holes effective mass resulting from combined effects of two dimensional confinement coupled with strain/tensile effects, and due to the electron wave function not being able to penetrate the barrier regions in 2D materials.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 21, 2017
Accession Number
AD1048837

Entities

People

  • Ashwani K. Sharma

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Carrier Mobility
  • Chemistry
  • Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductors
  • Crystal Lattices
  • Electronics
  • Electronics Industry
  • Electronics Laboratories
  • Energy Bands
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Materials
  • Mobility
  • Semiconductors
  • Spacecraft
  • Three Dimensional
  • Transport Properties
  • Two-Dimensional Materials

Fields of Study

  • Materials science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Solar Physics
  • Superconducting Magnet Technology

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Quantum Computing
  • Space