Title :
Multi-subband electron mobility in AlGaAs parabolic quantum wells
Author :
Palo, Scott ; Sahoo, N. ; Sahu, Trinath ; Panda, Anup Kumar
Author_Institution :
Dept. of ECE, Kalam Inst. of Technol., Berhampur, India
Abstract :
We analyze the enhancement of multisubband electron mobility in delta-doped AlxGa1-xAs parabolic quantum well structures. We show that mobility is considerably enhanced in a parabolic quantum well compared to that in a square quantum well due to shifting of subband electron wave functions towards the centre of the well through the influence of the parabolic structure potential. We analyse the interplay of different scattering mechanisms on subband mobility mediated by intersubband interactions which leads to interesting results.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; electron mobility; gallium arsenide; impurity scattering; semiconductor quantum wells; wave functions; AlxGa1-xAs; delta-doped parabolic quantum well structures; intersubband interactions; mobility; multisubband electron mobility; parabolic structure potential; scattering mechanisms; square quantum well; subband electron wave function shifting; subband mobility; Electric potential; Electron mobility; Gallium arsenide; Impurities; Metals; Scattering; Wave functions; Multisubband electron mobility; Parabolic double quantum well;
Conference_Titel :
Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vellore
DOI :
10.1109/ICAEE.2014.6838459