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We report photocarrier time-of-flight measurements in diode structures made of highly porous crystalline silicon. The corresponding electron and hole drift mobilities are very small compared to homogeneous crystalline silicon. They show two…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. N. Rao , E. A. Schiff , L. Tsybeskov , P. M. Fauchet

We report the transport characteristics of both electrons and holes through narrow constricted crystalline Si "wall-like" long-channels that were surrounded by a thermally grown SiO2 layer. Importantly, as a result of the existence of fixed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 C. S. Mayberry , Danhong Huang , G. Balakrishnan , C. Kouhestani , N. Islam , S. R. J. Brueck , A. K. Sharma

We analyze transport in metallic single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) on insulating substrates over the bias range up to electrical breakdown in air. To account for Joule self-heating, a temperature-dependent Landauer model for electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric Pop , David Mann , Kenneth Goodson , Hongjie Dai

We study longitudinal magnetotransport in disorder-free cylindrical Weyl semimetal nanowires. Our theory includes a magnetic flux $\Phi$ piercing the nanowire and captures the finite curvature of the Fermi arc in the surface Brillouin zone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Alessandro De Martino , Kathrin Dorn , Francesco Buccheri , Reinhold Egger

The effects of an atomistic interface roughness in n-type silicon nanowire transistors (SiNWT) on the radio frequency performance are analyzed. Interface roughness scattering (IRS) is statistically investigated through a three dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 SungGeun Kim , Mathieu Luisier , Timothy B. Boykin , Gerhard Klimeck

The dielectric environment of thin semiconductor nanowires can affect the charge transport properties inside the wire. In this work, it is shown that Coulomb impurity scattering inside thin nanowires can be damped strongly by coating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-15 Aniruddha Konar , Debdeep Jena

The charge transport properties of single superconducting tin nanowires, encapsulated by multiwalled carbon nanotubes have been investigated by multi-probe measurements. The multiwalled carbon nanotube protects the tin nanowire from…

Wave effects of phonons can give rise to controllability of heat conduction beyond that by particle scattering at surfaces and interfaces. In this work, we propose a new class of 3D nanostructure: a silicon-nanowire-cage (SiNWC) structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Dengke Ma , Hongru Ding , Han Meng , Lei Feng , Yue Wu , Junichiro Shiomi , Nuo Yang

We have performed a comprehensive computational study of the vibrational properties and electron-phonon couplings in the three known polymorphs of pentacene. Vibrational patterns and electron-phonon interactions were calculated at several…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Luca Gnoli , Elisabetta Venuti , Matteo Masino , Patrizio Graziosi

Silicon nanoparticles have the promise to surpass the theoretical efficiency limit of single-junction silicon photovoltaics by the creation of a "phonon bottleneck", a theorized slowing of the cooling rate of hot optical phonons that in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Ilana J. Porter , Angela Lee , Scott K. Cushing , Hung-Tzu Chang , Justin C. Ondry , A. Paul Alivisatos , Stephen R. Leone

Electron transport in a new low-dimensional structure - the nuclear spin polarization induced quantum wire (NSPI QW) is theoretically studied. In the proposed system the local nuclear spin polarization creates the effective hyperfine field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. V. Pershin , S. N. Shevchenko , I. D. Vagner , P. Wyder

We calculated the electron mobility of 14 two dimensional semiconductors with composition of MX$_2$, where M (= Mo, W, Sn, Hf, Zr and Pt) is the transition metal, and X is S, Se and Te. We treated the scattering matrix by deformation…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-04 Zhishuo Huang , Wenxu Zhang , Wanli Zhang , Yanrong Li

The effect of geometrical confinement, atomic position and orientation of Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) on their thermal properties are investigated using the phonon dispersion obtained using a Modified Valence Force Field (MVFF) model. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Abhijeet Paul , Mathieu Luisier , Gerhard Klimeck

Transport properties of holes in InP nanowires were calculated considering electron-phonon interaction via deformation potentials, the effect of temperature and strain fields. Using molecular dynamics, we simulate nanowire structures,…

We address the electronic resonant transport in presence of a transverse magnetic field through the single level of a suspended carbon nanotube acting as a quantum oscillator. We predict a negative magneto-conductance with a magnetic-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-17 G. Rastelli , M. Houzet , F. Pistolesi

The linear dispersion relation in graphene[1,2] gives rise to a surprising prediction: the resistivity due to isotropic scatterers (e.g. white-noise disorder[3] or phonons[4-8]) is independent of carrier density n. Here we show that…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-04-14 J. H. Chen , C. Jang , S. Xiao , M. Ishigami , M. S. Fuhrer

We consider electronic transport through semiconducting nanowires (W) with spin-orbit interaction (SOI), in a hybrid N-W-N setup where the wire is contacted by normal-metal leads (N). We investigate the conductance behavior of the system as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Diego Rainis , Daniel Loss

The thermoelectric properties of 1.6 nm-thick Si square nanowires with [100] crystalline orientation are calculated over a wide temperature range from 0 K to 1000 K, taking into account atomistic electron-phonon interaction. In our model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-27 Igor Bejenari , Peter Kratzer

Exciton transport in 2D semiconductors holds promise for room-temperature, ultra-compact optoelectronic devices, but it is limited by short propagation distances. Hybridization of excitons with cavity photons to form exciton-polaritons can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jamie M. Fitzgerald , Roberto Rosati , Ermin Malic

Here, we report an alternative route to achieve two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a semiconductor structure. It has been shown that charge accumulation on the side facets can lead to the formation of 2DEG in a network of c-axis…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 H. P. Bhasker , Varun Thakur , S. M. Shivaprasad , S. Dhar