Cc. Wu et Cj. Lin, EFFECT OF NONPARABOLIC BANDS ON IMPURITY-LIMITED MOBILITY OF SEMICONDUCTING THIN WIRES IN N-TYPE GERMANIUM, PHYSICS OF LOW-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES, 1-2, 1998, pp. 263-269
The impurity-limited mobility of semiconducting thin wires for nonpara
bolic structures in n-type Ge has been investigated by scattering from
ionized impurities with doping arsenic. The scattering is coming from
the background impurities or from the uniform distribution of remote
impurities. Results are shown that the impurity-limited mobility due t
o the scattering from background impurities increases slowly and monot
onically with increasing temperature for nondegenerate semiconductors
at low temperatures. This is the same qualitative property as that for
an ordinary three-dimensional semiconducting structure at low tempera
tures. However, the mobility due to the scattering from remote impurit
ies increases rapidly with temperature and appears much larger than th
at from background impurities. It is also shown that the mobility decr
eases rapidly and monotonically with the wire radius of semiconducting
thin wire for the scattering from background impurities or remote imp
urities. For degenerate semiconductors, the impurity-limited mobility
decreases monotonically with the wire radius for the scattering from b
ackground impurities, but the mobility does not change with the wire r
adius quite clearly except a discontinuous point in the neighborhood o
f wire radius d < 100 Angstrom for the scattering from remote impuriti
es.