Model for Ultrafast Carrier Scattering in Semiconductors

Abstract

Overall objective of this research effort is to understand and explain ultrafast carrier scattering dynamics in semiconductor heterostructures. Specific research objectives are: To develop a screened semiconductor Bloch formalism to provide the force-balance equation with a friction force that determines electron drift velocity, and to establish screened semiconductor Bloch equations to study the dynamics of electron impurity, roughness, phonon, electron scattering, and dynamics of optical pumping.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 13, 2010
Accession Number
ADA531431

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People

  • David Cardimona

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Boltzmann Equation
  • Detectors
  • Elastic Scattering
  • Electron Gas
  • Electron Scattering
  • Electronics
  • Electrons
  • Energy Bands
  • Equations
  • Quantum Dots
  • Scattering
  • Semiconductors
  • Spacecraft
  • Spin-Orbit Interaction
  • Subatomic Particles
  • Two Dimensional

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  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

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  • Microelectronics