A Monte Carlo study of electron-hole scattering and steady-state minority-electron transport in GaAs
- 28 November 1988
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 53 (22) , 2205-2207
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.100282
Abstract
We report the first bipolar Monte Carlo calculations of steady-state minority-electron transport in room-temperature p-GaAs including multiband electron-hole scattering with and without hole overlap factors. Our results show how such processes, which make a significant contribution to the minority-electron energy loss rate, can affect steady-state minority-electron transport. Furthermore, we discuss several other issues which we believe should be investigated before present Monte Carlo treatments of electron-hole scattering can provide quantitative information.Keywords
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