Velocity-field characteristics of III-V semiconductor alloys: Band structure influences
- 15 February 1987
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 61 (4) , 1475-1479
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.338079
Abstract
We have calculated the velocity-field characteristics of semiconductor alloys based on realistic band structures and have obtained the band structures and alloy-scattering rates from a generalization of the coherent potential approximation method. Although we use proper band structures, we still consider a single electron-temperature model. The results agree surprisingly well with experiments, and suggest that InP-based alloys are good candidates for high-speed devices.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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