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Mobility of a Two‐Dimensional Hole Gas in a SiSiGeSi Quantum Well Based on a New Wave Function
Author(s) -
Kundu S.,
Raychaudhuri S.,
Ghosh S.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.2221980209
Subject(s) - wave function , quantum well , heterojunction , scattering , condensed matter physics , function (biology) , distribution function , physics , computational physics , materials science , quantum mechanics , laser , evolutionary biology , biology
The distribution of two‐dimensional holes in a SiGe quantum well (QW) depends significantly on the well width, as it is nearly sinusoidal for very narrow wells and becomes of double heterojunction type for wider wells. In this paper a new wave function has been proposed to account for the distribution at all well widths. The temperature variation of mobility has been studied along with the well width dependence of the mobility. The relative contributions of different scattering mechanisms have been studied. The effect of screening has also been included. The results when compared with mobilities computed for other standard wave functions agree well with the sinusoidal wave function for very thin wells and with the Fang‐Howard wave function for much wider wells. For intermediate well widths, the mobilities based on the new wave function show better agreement with experimental data than for the other two wave functions that are, respectively, valid only at the two extremes.