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In order to justify applicability of the standard approach of perturbation theory for the description of transport phenomena in wide-band polar semiconductors with strong electron-phonon interactions, we have compared dependences of energy…
We combine first-principles calculations and Boltzmann transport theory to study the electrical transport properties of intermetallic compound YbAl3. To accurately predict the electronic relaxation time, we use the density functional…
The parameter-free computation of charge transport properties of semiconductors is now routine owing to advances in the ab-initio description of the electron-phonon interaction. Many studies focus on the low-field regime in which the…
One of the fundamental properties of semiconductors is their ability to support highly tunable electric currents in the presence of electric fields or carrier concentration gradients. These properties are described by transport coefficients…
Interactions of charge carriers with lattice vibrations, or phonons, play a critical role in unconventional electronic transport of metals and semimetals. Recent observations of phonon-mediated collective electron flow in bulk semimetals,…
Over the last few years, $ab~initio$ methods have become an increasingly popular tool to evaluate intrinsic carrier transport properties in 2D materials. The lack of experimental information, and the progress made in the development of DFT…
We theoretically study the acoustic phonon limited mobility in n-doped two-dimensional MoS2 for temperatures T < 100 K and high carrier densities using the Boltzmann equation and first-principles calculations of the acoustic electron-phonon…
We report on the temperature dependent electron transport in graphene at different carrier densities $n$. Employing an electrolytic gate, we demonstrate that $n$ can be adjusted up to 4$\times10^{14}$cm$^{-2}$ for both electrons and holes.…
High-performance thermoelectric (TE) materials are crucial for efficient waste-heat recovery and solid-state cooling technologies. A persistent challenge in TE materials design arises from the strong interdependence among the electrical…
Self-consistent calculations of acoustic and polar optical phonon scattering rates in GaAs quantum wire transistor structures were carried out with account of collisional broadening. The influence of the gate bias on the scattering rates…
We perform a first-principles investigation of electron-phonon interactions in silicon and germanium, uncovering distinct non-polaronic spectral and transport fingerprints in these archetypal covalent semiconductors. Using many-body…
We have developed a first-principles method to calculate the electron-phonon coupling for specific modes and q-points in the Brillouin Zone for crystalline organic semiconductors. Using the obtained coupling strengths, we propose an…
We investigate the energy relaxation of hot carriers produced by photoexcitation of graphene through coupling to both intrinsic and remote (substrate) surface polar phonons using the Boltzmann equation approach. We find that the energy…
We report neutron inelastic scattering experiments on single crystal PbMg$_{1/3}$Nb$_{2/3}$O$_{3}$ doped with 32\% PbTiO$_{3}$, a relaxor ferroelectric that lies close to the morphotropic phase boundary. When cooled under an electric field…
The transparent conducting oxide SnO2 is a wide bandgap semiconductor that is easily n-type doped and widely used in various electronic and optoelectronic applications. Experimental reports of the electron mobility of this material vary…
In this letter, we theoretically study the electron mobility in few-layer MoxW1-xS2 as limited by various scattering mechanisms. The room temperature energy-dependent scattering times corresponding to polar longitudinal optical (LO) phonon,…
Phonon transport of recently-fabricated $\mathrm{Na_2He}$ at high pressure is investigated from a combination of first-principles calculations and the linearized phonon Boltzmann equation within the single-mode relaxation time approximation…
Circularly polarized phonons, characterized by nonzero angular momenta and magnetic moments, have attracted extensive attention. However, a long-standing critical issue in this field is the lack of an approach to accurately calculate phonon…
We propose a hydrodynamic model to study the thermotransport properties of semiconductor electrons. From the semiclassical Boltzmann equation a set of balance equations is built for the relevant fields. The electron density, the electron…
Electron-electron (e-e) interactions assume a cardinal role in solid-state physics. Quantifying the e-e scattering length is hence critical. In this paper we show that the mesoscopic phenomenon of transverse magnetic focusing (TMF) in…