THE HALL FACTOR OF HOT-ELECTRON TRANSPORT IN NON-PARABOLIC KANE BANDS

Balance equations of hot-carrier transport have recently been develope d for electrons in an arbitrary energy band in crossed electric and ma gnetic fields. It is shown that these equations provide a very conveni ent tool to deal with semiclassical magneto-hot-electron transport in non-parabolic systems. As an example, Hall factors of narrow-gap semic onductors with Kane band structures are obtained by directly calculati ng the gamma-coefficients in the equations. The predictions, which are sensitive to band non-parabolicity, are compared with an earlier expe riment and Monte Carlo analysis.