High-field diffusion of electrons in silicon

Abstract
With the time‐of‐flight technique we have measured the longitudinal diffusion coefficient of electrons in silicon at 300 K for fields from Ohmic up to 50 kV/cm. The results have been interpreted by means of Monte Carlo calculations with a theoretical model which includes the many‐valley (ellipsoidal and nonparabolic) structure of the band, acoustic intravalley, and several f and g intervalley scattering mechanisms.