High-field charge transport and noise in p-Si from first principles
arXiv:2206.14934 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.107.035201
Abstract
The parameter-free computation of charge transport properties of semiconductors is now routine owing to advances in the ab-initio description of the electron-phonon interaction. Many studies focus on the low-field regime in which the carrier temperature equals the lattice temperature and the current power spectral density (PSD) is proportional to the mobility. The calculation of high-field transport and noise properties offers a stricter test of the theory as these relations no longer hold, yet few such calculations have been reported. Here, we compute the high-field mobility and PSD of hot holes in silicon from first principles at temperatures of 77 and 300 K and electric fields up to 20 kV cm along various crystallographic axes. We find that the calculations quantitatively reproduce experimental trends including the anisotropy and electric-field dependence of hole mobility and PSD. The experimentally observed rapid variation of energy relaxation time with electric field at cryogenic temperatures is also correctly predicted. However, as in low-field studies, absolute quantitative agreement is in general lacking, a discrepancy that has been attributed to inaccuracies in the calculated valence band structure. Our work highlights the use of high-field transport and noise properties as a rigorous test of the theory of electron-phonon interactions in semiconductors.
arXiv comment19 pages, 4 figures
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