Controlling interplay between weak localization and interface-roughness scattering of electrons in nonlinear transport within a superlattice

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作者
Shih, Po-Hsin [1 ]
Huang, Danhong [2 ]
Gumbs, Godfrey [1 ]
Do, Thi-Nga [3 ]
Morath, Christian P. [2 ]
Maestas, Diana [2 ]
机构
[1] CUNY, Hunter Coll, Dept Phys & Astron, 695 Pk Ave, New York, NY 10065 USA
[2] US Air Force, Res Lab, Space Vehicles Directorate, Albuquerque, NM 87117 USA
[3] Natl Cheng Kung Univ, Dept Phys, Tainan 701, Taiwan
关键词
THUE-MORSE; VERTICAL TRANSPORT; QUANTUM; CONDUCTIVITY; FLUCTUATIONS; OSCILLATIONS; MAGNETOTRANSPORT; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION; CONDUCTANCE;
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10.1103/PhysRevB.110.085303
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
In this study, we have explored simultaneously two distinctive physical aspects of electron transport within a semiconductor superlattice subjected to both randomly distributed barrier scattering strengths and in-plane interface-roughness scattering of electrons within each barrier layer. To include interface-roughness scattering of electrons within a single barrier layer, we adopt the reduced Boltzmann transport equation to compute the nonequilibrium occupation function of electrons. In the presence of randomness within a superlattice, we apply a quantum-mechanical transfer-matrix approach for an electron wave to take into account all barrier-layer scattering within the superlattice. Consequently, the single-electron group velocity has been replaced by a mean group velocity assisted with a randomness-averaged transmission coefficient. For the interface-roughness scattering of electrons by each barrier layer, we numerically solve the reduced Boltzmann transport equation exactly and acquire the electrical current by another weighted average of obtained mean group velocities over the numerically calculated transient nonequilibrium occupation function of electrons from the reduced Boltzmann transport equation.
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