High-Field Scattering Mechanisms inn-Germanium at 300 °K
- 15 August 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 6 (4) , 1399-1402
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.6.1399
Abstract
The hot-electron characteristic of -germanium at room temperature is theoretically derived taking into account the effects of the valleys and the nonparabolicity of the valleys. It is shown that the experimental results may be explained by theory only when both these effects are included.
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