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Phonon-scattering-limited electron mobilities in AlxGa1-xAs/GaAs heterojunctions

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作者
Kawamura T, Das Sarma S
摘要
We study the bulk-phonon-scattering contribution to the transport properties of a two-dimensional electron gas formed at the interface of an ultrapure Al_xGa_1-xAs/GaAs heterojunction. Assuming that the electrons only occupy the lowest subband, we calculate the mobility as a function of temperature for the temperature range T=1–300 K, within the variational-subband-wave-function model for carrier confinement. Our work encompasses three physically distinct temperature ranges with respect to phonon scattering: the Block-Grüneisen (BG), equipartition (EP), and inelastic regimes. In the EP regime we calculate (i) the individual and total scattering rates τ_s^-1, and momentum relaxation rates τ_t^-1, due to deformation-potential and piezoelectric coupled acoustic-mode phonons, with screening of these rates taken into account within the static random-phase approximation; (ii) the acoustic-phonon-scattering limited drift mobilities μ_ac for different densities n_s as a function of temperature T; (iii) the level of validity of Matthiessen’s rule; and (iv) the dimensionless Hall ratio r_H. In addition, we investigate in detail the temperature dependence of the low-temperature mobility and find excellent agreement with experimental data for the linear coefficient α=dμ^-1(T)/dT of the temperature dependence as a function of density.
We carry out similar calculations in the BG regime and compare the results with the corresponding ones in the EP regime. Finally, to evaluate the mobility in the inelastic regime at high temperatures above T≊40 K, where the scattering from polar LO phonons becomes important, we compute the first-order perturbation distribution φ(E) as a function of the carrier energy E by directly solving the linearized Boltzmann equation by an iterative method. We compare these results with the commonly used closed-form approximations for φ: the low-temperature relaxation-time approximation τ_LT, and the high-energy relaxation-time approximation τ_HE, and check their level of validity.
详细资料
- 文献种类:期刊
- 期刊名称: Physical Review B
- 期刊缩写: Phys. Rev. B
- 期卷页: 1992年第45卷第7期 3612-3627页
- ISBN: 0163-1829
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