Electron-phonon scattering from Green's function transport combined with Molecular Dynamics: Applications to mobility predictions

Abstract

We present a conceptually simple method for treating electron-phonon scattering and phonon limited mobilities. By combining Green's function based transport calculations and molecular dynamics (MD), we obtain a temperature dependent transmission from which we evaluate the mobility. We validate our approach by comparing to mobilities and conductivies obtained by the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) for different bulk and one-dimensional systems. For bulk silicon and gold we successfully compare against experimental values. We discuss limitations and advantages of each of the computational approaches.

8 pages, 8 figures

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