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We demonstrate that a simple phenomenological approach can be used to simulate electronic conduction in molecular wires under thermal effects induced by the surrounding environment. This "Landauer-B\"uttiker's probe technique" can properly…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Michael Kilgour , Dvira Segal

We propose a direct experimental extraction technique for trapped charges and quantitative energy band diagrams in the FeFETs with metal-insulator-ferroelectric-insulator-semiconductor (MIFIS) structure, derived from the physical…

Gated molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) exhibits a rich phase diagram upon increasing electron doping, including a superconducting phase, a polaronic reconstruction of the bandstructure, and structural transitions away from the 2H polytype. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-20 Davide Romanin , Thomas Brumme , Dario Daghero , Renato S. Gonnelli , Erik Piatti

Recent theoretical and experimental advances have shed light on the existence of so-called `perfectly transmitting' wavefronts with transmission coefficients close to 1 in strongly backscattering random media. These perfectly transmitting…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Curtis Jin , Raj Rao Nadakuditi , Eric Michielssen , Stephen Rand

Sound scattering by a finite width beam on a single rigid body rotation vortex flow is detected by a linear array of transducers (both smaller than a flow cell), and analyzed using a revised scattering theory. Both the phase and amplitude…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sh. Seifer , V. Steinberg

Variability of low frequency noise (LFN) in MOSFETs is bias-dependent. Moderate- to large-sized transistors commonly used in analog/RF applications show 1/f-like noise spectra, resulting from the superposition of random telegraph noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-03 Nikolaos Mavredakis , Nikolaos Makris , Predrag Habas , Matthias Bucher

In this letter, we propose a reduced-order model to bridge the particle transport mechanics and the macroscopic fluid dynamics in the highly scattered regime. A rigorous mathematical derivation and a concise physical interpretation are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 Yuan Hu , Chang Liu , Huayun Shen

A gated Hall-bar device is made from an epitaxially grown, free-standing InSb nanosheet on a hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) dielectric/graphite gate structure and the electron transport properties in the InSb nanosheet are studied by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-22 Li Zhang , Dong Pan , Yuanjie Chen , Jianhua Zhao , H. Q. Xu

A recent line of work has focused on the use of low-density generator matrix (LDGM) codes for lossy source coding. In this paper, wedevelop a generic technique for deriving lower bounds on the rate-distortion functions of binary linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-08-18 A. G. Dimakis , M. J. Wainwright , K. Ramchandran

The simulation of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images or diffraction patterns is often required to interpret their contrast and extract specimen features. This is especially true for high-resolution phase-contrast imaging of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-30 Jacob Madsen , Timothy J. Pennycook , Toma Susi

One-dimensional topological superconductors accommodate a pair of Majorana zero modes at their ends. In an interferometer containing such a topological superconductor, electron transport is significantly affected by the Majorana zero modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Kyosuke Mizuno , Yuto Takarabe , Yositake Takane

In view of its local character, the semiclassical or Boltzmann theory is intrinsically unable to describe transport phenomena on ultrashort space and time scales, and to this purpose genuine quantum-transport approaches are imperative. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 Roberto Rosati , Fausto Rossi

In this work, we describe the charge transport in two-dimensional (2D) Schottky barrier field-effect transistors (SB-FETs) based on the carrier injection at the Schottky contacts. We first develop a numerical model for thermionic and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Ashwin Tunga , Zijing Zhao , Ankit Shukla , Wenjuan Zhu , Shaloo Rakheja

We formulate a theory of transport in graphene bilayers in the weak momentum scattering regime in such a way as to take into account contributions to the electrical conductivity to leading and next-to-leading order in the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dimitrie Culcer , R. Winkler

As metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFET) channel lengths (Lg) are scaled to lengths shorter than Lg<8 nm source-drain tunneling starts to become a major performance limiting factor. In this scenario a heavier transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Saumitra Mehrotra , SungGeun Kim , Tillmann Kubis , Michael Povolotskyi , Mark Lundstrom , Gerhard Klimeck

While space-charge-limited current measurements are often used to characterize charge-transport in relatively intrinsic, low-mobility semiconductors, it is currently difficult to characterize lightly or heavily doped semiconductors with…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Jason A. Röhr , Roderick C. I. MacKenzie

We provide the first observation of weak localization in high carrier density two-dimensional electron gas in AlInN/GaN heterostructures; at low temperatures and low fields the conductivity increases with increasing magnetic field. Weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Leizhi Wang , Ming Yin , Asif Khan , Sakib Muhtadi , Fatima Asif , Eun Sang Choi , Timir Datta

Based on an invariant embedding principle for the backscattering function we calculate the electron emission yield for metal surfaces at very low electron impact energies. Solving the embedding equation within a quasi-isotropic…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-06 F. X. Bronold , H. Fehske

We present a first-principles framework to extract deformation potentials in Silicon based on density-functional theory (DFT) and density-functional perturbation theory (DFPT). We compute the electronic band structures, phonon dispersion…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-05 Zhen Li , Patrizio Graziosi , Neophytos Neophytou

Understanding the movement of charge within organic semiconducting films is crucial for applications in photo-voltaics and flexible electronics. We study the sensitivity of the electrical conductance of a silicon nanowire to changes of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-20 M. V. Klymenko , J. A. Vaitkus , J. H. Cole