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We present a theoretical study of electron-phonon scattering effects in thin films made of a strong topological insulator. Phonons are modelled by isotropic elastic continuum theory with stress-free boundary conditions, and the interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-26 Sébastien Giraud , Arijit Kundu , Reinhold Egger

We report on the study of phonon properties and electron-phonon coupling in thin NbTiN films, which are intensively exploited in superconducting devices. Studied NbTiN films with thicknesses less than 10~nm are disordered with respect to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-01 M. Sidorova , A. Semenov , H. -W. Huebers , S. Gyger , S. Steinhauer , X. Zhang , A. Schilling

Prior experimental studies showed that nanowires are promising structures for improving the thermoelectric performance of practical thermoelectric materials due to the strongly induced phonon-boundary scattering. However, few studies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Lei Ma , Riguo Mei , Mengmeng Liu , Xuxin Zhao , Qixing Wu , Hongyuan Sun

Boron phosphide has recently been identified as a potential high hole mobility transparent conducting material. This promise arises from its low hole effective masses. However, BP has a relatively small 2 eV indirect band gap which will…

We have investigated optical conductivity spectra of $n$- and $p$-type Ba$_8$Ga $_{16}$Sn$_{30}$ ($\alpha$-BGS) with type-VIII clathrate structure, at temperatures from 296\,K down to 6\,K with a terahertz time-domain spectrometer…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-19 K. Iwamoto , T. Mori , S. Kajitani , H. Matsumoto , N. Toyota , K. Suekuni , M. A. Avila , Y. Saiga , T. Takabatake

There is still a gap in understanding phonons scattering by geometrical defects at the nanoscale, and it remains a significant challenge for heat transfer management in nanoscale devices and systems. In this study, we aim to explore the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Mykola Isaiev , Nataliia Kyrychenko , Vasyl Kuryliuk , David Lacroix

Despite their fundamental role in determining material properties, detailed momentum-dependent information on the strength of electron-phonon and phonon-phonon coupling (EPC and PPC, respectively) across the entire Brillouin zone (BZ) has…

To investigate the transport properties in random alloys, it is important to model the alloy disorder using supercells. Though traditional methods like Virtual Crystal Approximation (VCA) are computationally efficient, the local disorder in…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-27 Animesh Datta , Ankit Sharma , Matinehsadat Hosseinigheidari , Uttam Singisetti

We present an investigation of the lattice dynamics of the charge-density-wave compound 2H-NbSe2. We analyze the precise nature of the wave vector dependent electron-phonon coupling (EPC) and derive the bare dispersion of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Weber , R. Hott , R. Heid , K. -P. Bohnen , S. Rosenkranz , J. -P. Castellan , R. Osborn , A. H. Said B. M. Leu , D. Reznik

Layered halide perovskites have emerged as potential alternatives to three-dimensional halide perovskites due to their improved stability and larger material phase space, allowing fine-tuning of structural, electronic, and optical…

We report on the temperature dependence of the mobility, $\mu$, of the two-dimensional electron gas in a variable density AlGaN/GaN field effect transistor, with carrier densities ranging from 0.4$\times10^{12}$ cm$^{-2}$ to…

Electron-phonon scatterings in solid-state systems are pivotal processes in determining many key physical quantities such as charge carrier mobilities and thermal conductivities. Here, we report on the direct probing of phonon mode specific…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-24 Duk Hyun Lee , Sang-Jun Choi , Hakseong Kim , Yong-Sung Kim , Suyong Jung

Hydrodynamic electron transport arises when carrier kinetics are dominated by interelectron collisions rather than the relaxation of momentum out of the electron system. In recent years, signatures of electron hydrodynamics have been…

The performance of silicon nano-devices at cryogenic temperatures is critical for quantum qubit control circuits and space applications. Using multi-valley Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate electron transport in Si~(110) systems. At…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Hsin-Wen Huang , Xi-Jun Fang , Edward Chen , Yuh-Renn Wu

Quantum-confined semiconductor structures are the cornerstone of modern-day electronics. Spatial confinement in these structures leads to formation of discrete low-dimensional subbands. At room temperature, carriers transfer among different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-14 I. Knezevic , E. B. Ramayya , D. Vasileska , S. M. Goodnick

In crystals, macroscopic technological properties such as thermal conductivity originate from the microscopic drift and scattering of phonons, commonly described by the Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE). Despite its widespread use, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-18 Enrico Di Lucente , Nicola Marzari , Michele Simoncelli

The complex coupling between charge carriers and phonons is responsible for diverse phenomena in condensed matter. We apply ultrafast electron diffuse scattering to unravel electron-phonon coupling phenomena in 1T-TiSe$_2$ in both momentum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-14 Martin R. Otto , Jan-Hendrik Pöhls , Laurent P. René de Cotret , Mark J. Stern , Mark Sutton , Bradley J. Siwick

We report on the novel mechanism of electron scattering in hybrid Bose-Fermi systems consisting of a two-dimensional electron gas in the vicinity of an exciton condensate: We show that a pair-of-bogolons--mediated scattering proves to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Kristian Hauser A. Villegas , Meng Sun , Vadim M. Kovalev , Ivan G. Savenko

The temperature dependent Hall mobility data from La-doped SrTiO3 thin films has been analyzed and modeled considering various electron scattering mechanisms. We find that a ~6 meV transverse optical phonon (TO) deformation potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Amit Verma , Adam P. Kajdos , Tyler A. Cain , Susanne Stemmer , Debdeep Jena

Recent THz spectroscopy of the quantum paraelectric SrTiO$_3$ (arXiv:2501.15771) and a high-$T_c$ cuprate (arXiv:2503.15646) has renewed interest in energy relaxation in correlated electron systems. We consider a situation in which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-22 Joshua Covey , Dmitrii L. Maslov