Analytic Distribution for Charge Carriers in a Semiconductor Dominated by Equivalent Intervalley Scattering

Abstract

The transport of charge carriers in Silicon immersed in an electric field is studied using the quasiclassical Uehling-Uhlenbeck equation. Strain- acoustic and equivalent intervalley electron-phonon interactions are taken into account. A nonlinear difference-differential equation for the distribution function of this equation is constructed from which an expression for drift velocity is derived. Comparison with values obtained from this expression is found to give very good agreement with experimental measurement for electric fields up to 100,000 V/cm.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 10, 1988
Accession Number
ADA202537

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People

  • Gregory K. Schenter
  • Richard L. Liboff

Organizations

  • Cornell University

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Charge Carriers
  • Classification
  • Collisions
  • Contracts
  • Differential Equations
  • Distribution Functions
  • Electric Fields
  • Equations
  • Military Research
  • Nonlinear Differential Equations
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Phonons
  • Scattering
  • Security
  • Semiconductors
  • Transport Ships

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  • Microelectronics