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Accumulation layers with very large concentrations of electrons where many subbands are filled became recently available due to ionic liquid and other new methods of gating. The low temperature mobility in such layers is limited by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Han Fu , K. V. Reich , B. I. Shklovskii

We study theoretically the relative importance of short-range disorder in determining the low-temperature 2D mobility in GaAs-based structures with respect to Coulomb disorder which is known to be the dominant disorder in semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang

The interactions between electrons and lattice vibrational modes play the key role in determining the carrier transport properties, thermoelectric performance and other physical quantities related to phonons in semiconductors. However, for…

The ability to exfoliate layered materials down to the single layer limit has opened the opportunity to understand how a gradual reduction in dimensionality affects the properties of bulk materials. Here we use this top-down approach to…

The 2D electrons trapped in vacuum near the atomically thin dielectric (ATD, mono- or $N$-layer film of $h$-BN or transition metal dichalcogenide) are considered. ATD is suspended above the back gate and forms the capacitor which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 F. T. Vasko

We present the results on the anomalous 2D transport behavior by employing Drude-Boltzmann transport theory and taking into account the realistic charge impurity scattering effects. Our results show quantitative agreement with the existing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang , Igor Zutic

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are a new class of materials with interesting physical properties and ranging from nanoelectronics to sensing and photonics. In addition to graphene, the most studied 2D material, monolayers of other layered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 Branimir Radisavljevic , Andras Kis

We theoretically study transport in two-dimensional semimetals. Typically, electron and hole puddles emerge in the transport layer of these systems due to smooth fluctuations in the potential. We calculate the electric response of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 Michael Knap , Jay D. Sau , Bertrand I. Halperin , Eugene Demler

Atomically thin two-dimensional chalcogenides such as MoS2 monolayers are structurally ideal channel materials for the ultimate atomic electronics. However, a heavy thickness dependence of electrical performance is shown in these ultrathin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-22 Song-Lin Li , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi

We examine an effect of acoustic phonon scattering on an electric conductivity of single-component molecular conductor [Pd(dddt)$_2$] (dddt = 5,6-dihydro-1,4-dithiin-2,3-dithiolate) with a half-filled band by applying the previous…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-30 Yoshikazu Suzumura , Reizo Kato , Masao Ogata

We theoretically consider the temperature and density dependent transport properties of semiconductor-based 2D carrier systems within the RPA-Boltzmann transport theory, taking into account realistic screened charged impurity scattering in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang

I present a theory of electron dynamics in semiconductors with slowly varying composition. I show that the frequency-dependent conductivity, required for the description of transport and optical properties, can be obtained from a knowledge…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Michael R. Geller

We investigate quantum corrections to the conductivity due to the interference of electron-electron (electron-phonon) scattering and elastic electron scattering in weakly disordered conductors. The electron-electron interaction results in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Sergeev , M. Yu. Reizer , V. Mitin

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…

Comparing with the conventional semiconductors, the choice of the two dimensional semiconductor (2DSC) materials is very limited. Based on proper electron counting, we propose a large family of 2DSCs, all adopting the same structure and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-03 Mao-sheng Miao , Jorge Botana , Jingyao Liu , Wen Yan

Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals semiconductors are appealing for low-power transistors. Here, we show the feasibility in enhancing carrier mobility in 2D semiconductors through engineering the vertical distribution of carriers confined…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-27 Binxi Liang , Luhao Liu , Jiachen Tang , Jian Chen , Yi Shi , Songlin Li

Low-dimensional Si-based semiconductors are unique materials that can both match well with the Si-based electronics and satisfy the demand of miniaturization in modern industry. Owing to the lack of such materials, many researchers put…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-06 Yan Qian , Zhengwei Du , Renzhu Zhu , Haiping Wu , Erjun Kan , Kaiming Deng

The low-field electron mobility in rectangular silicon nanowire (SiNW) transistors was computed using a self-consistent Poisson-Schr\"{o}dinger-Monte Carlo solver. The behavior of the phonon-limited and surface-roughness-limited components…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-17 E. B. Ramayya , D. Vasileska , S. M. Goodnick , I. Knezevic

The Hall scattering factor is formulated using Rode's iterative approach to solving the Boltzmann transport equation in such a way that it may be easily computed within the scope of ab-inito calculations. Using this method in conjunction…

We investigate the effect due to background impurities embedded in the region of two-dimensional electron gases to the magnetotransport. These impurities are achieved by homogeneously incorporating Si atoms in single quantum wells of high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-26 E. P. Rugeramigabo , L. Bockhorn , R. J. Haug