Proposal for Neutral Donors in Quantum Wells to Act as Charge Storage Centres for Room Temperature Single Electron Memories

Abstract

This work discusses a range of semiconductor materials, and demonstrates that in a II-VI compound semiconductor, the neutral donor binding energy can be enhanced with the addition of a quantum well confining potential, to a value greater than kT at room temperature and simultaneously greater than the longitundinal optic phonon energy. Thus room ten1perature occupation is a possibility. The application of this nanoscale localisation centre as a single electron memory is discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADP012776

Entities

People

  • P. Harrison

Organizations

  • University of Leeds

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Band Structures
  • Compound Semiconductors
  • Conduction Bands
  • Dielectric Permittivity
  • Differential Equations
  • Electrons
  • Energy Bands
  • Equations
  • Far Infrared Lasers
  • Ground State
  • Infrared Lasers
  • Ionization
  • Lasers
  • Materials
  • Quantum Dots
  • Quantum Wells
  • Semiconductors

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Nanocomposite Materials Science
  • Plasma Physics.
  • Semiconductor Device Technology

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Science - Quantum Dots