The density-of-states effective mass and conductivity effective mass of electrons and holes in relaxed or strained Ge and ${Ge_{0.8}}{Sn_{0.2}}$

완화된 또는 응력변형을 겪는 Ge과 ${Ge_{0.8}}{Sn_{0.2}}$에서 전자와 정공의 상태밀도 유효질량과 전도도 유효질량

  • 박일수 (인하대학교 전자컴퓨터공학부 통합과정) ;
  • 전상국 (인하대학교 전자전기컴퓨터 공학부)
  • Published : 2000.08.01

Abstract

Density-of-states effective mass(m*$_{d}$) and conductivity mass(m*$_{c}$)for Ge and Ge$_{0.8}$/Sn$_{0.2}$ are obtained by using 8$\times$8 k.p and strain Hamiltonians. It is shown that m*$_{d}$ and m*$_{c}$ for electrons in Ge/Ge$_{0.8}$/Sn$_{0.2}$(001) and Ge$_{0.8}$/Sn$_{0.2}$/Ge(001) are much smaller than those for electrons in relaxed Ge mainly due to the increase of interaction caused by the strain between the conduction band and valence bands at the $\Gamma$ point. The lift of degeneracy in Ge/Ge$_{0.8}$/Sn$_{0.2}$(001) and Ge/Ge$_{0.8}$/Sn$_{0.2}$(001) makes m*$_{d}$ and m*$_{c}$ for holes smaller than those in relaxed Ge and results in the decrease of the interband scattering as well as interband scattering. The decrease of the interband scattering is more obvious in Ge/Ge$_{0.8}$/Sn$_{0.2}$(001) because of its large splitting energy between the heavy hole and light hole band. Therefore, Ge/Ge$_{0.8}$/Sn$_{0.2}$(001) is expected to be good candidate for the development of ultra high-speed CMOS device.CMOS device.eed CMOS device.CMOS device.

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