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Carrier Mobility And High Field Transport in Modulation Doped p-Type Ge/Si1-xGex And n-Type Si/Si1-xGex Heterostructures

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Title Carrier Mobility And High Field Transport in Modulation Doped p-Type Ge/Si1-xGex And n-Type Si/Si1-xGex Heterostructures
 
Creator Madhavi, S
 
Subject Heterostructures
Semiconductor Filing
Transport Theory
Silicon Thin Films - Electrical Properties
Silicon Systems - Transport Properties
Low Field Transport
High Field Transport
Transient Thermal Response
Two Dimensional Electron Gas System (2DEG)
Two Dimensional Hole Gas System (2DHG)
Phonon Scattering
Carrier Temperature Model
Carrier Heating
Electrodynamics
 
Description Modulation doped heterostructures have revolutionized the operation of field effect devices by increasing the speed of operation. One of the factors that affects the speed of operation of these devices is the mobility of the carriers, which is intrinsic to the material used. Mobility of electrons in silicon based devices has improved drastically over the years, reaching as high as 50.000cm2/Vs at 4.2K and 2600cm2/Vs at room temperature. However, the mobility of holes in p-type silicon devices still remains comparatively lesser than the electron mobility because of large effective masses and complicated valence band structure involved. Germanium is known to have the largest hole mobility of all the known semiconductors and is considered most suitable to fabricate high speed p-type devices. Moreover, it is also possible to integrate germanium and its alloy (Si1_zGex ) into the existing silicon technology.

With the use of sophisticated growth techniques it has been possible to grow epitaxial layers of silicon and germanium on Si1_zGex alloy layers grown on silicon substrates. In tills thesis we investigate in detail the electrical properties of p-type germanium and n-type silicon thin films grown by these techniques. It is important to do a comparative study of transport in these two systems not only to understand the physics involved but also to study their compatibility in complementary field effect devices (cMODFET).

The studies reported in this thesis lay emphasis both on the low and high field transport properties of these systems. We report experimental data for the maximum room temperature mobility of holes achieved m germanium thin films grown on Si1_zGex layers that is comparable to the mobility of electrons in silicon films. We also report experiments performed to study the high field degradation of carrier mobility due to
"carrier heating" in these systems. We also report studies on the effect of lattice heating on mobility of carriers as a function of applied electric field.

To understand the physics behind the observed phenomenon, we model our data based on the existing theories for low and high field transport. We report complete numerical calculations based on these theories to explain the observed qualitative difference in the transport properties of p-type germanium and ii-type silicon systems. The consistency between the experimental data and theoretical modeling reported in this work is very satisfactory.
 
Publisher Indian Institute of Science
 
Contributor Venkataraman, V
 
Date 2007-06-26T06:57:05Z
2007-06-26T06:57:05Z
2007-06-26T06:57:05Z
2000-03
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2005/294
 
Language en_US
 
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