GaAs/AlAs异质谷间转移电子器件动态工作模式的模拟研究

使用量子阱能带混合隧穿共振理论及MonteCarlo模拟方法计算了GaAs／AlAs异质谷间转移电子器件的静态和动态工作特性．发现有源层中的电场及Г、X和L三能谷的电子布居基本上可分为强场立能谷区和弱场耿氏区两部分．控制掺杂接日的浓度能调制这两区域的相对大小，控制两种谷间转移电子效应的相互作用，从而改变器件的静态和动态性能动态模拟给出了器件的新射频工作模式：上能谷电子区的宽度调制和低场耿氏区电场的上下浮动．运用这一工作模式解释了器件的各类新工作特性，并且提出了利用这种量子阶控制极来制作新的异质谷间转移电子三极管的可能性     

GaAs/AlGaAs量子阱隧道电流的压力效应

本文使用单带双谷模型计算了通过AlGaAs势垒的隧道电流的压力系数.计算中考虑了能谷的非抛物线性,Г,X两个能谷的贡献以及电场的作用,说明了电流压力系数随电场增强而下降以及大压强下隧道电流对数偏离线性的实验现象.在此基础上进一步研究了加压GaAs/AlAs量子阱隧道电流中的Г-X混和效应.     

耦合量子阱和超晶格中的Stark效应及电场感生的局域化

本文使用单带双谷模型和隧道谐振方法计算了电场作用下耦合量子阱和超晶格中的电子态.计算中考虑了能谷的非抛物线性和Г,Х两个能谷的贡献.算得的耦合量子阱能级同实验结果之间吻合良好,并且得出在某些电场下两个阱中的不同能级之间可能产生耦合.对超晶格的计算同样得到了同实验吻合的电场作用下的局域化及电子的带间跃迁能量.在GaAs/AlAs超晶格中还算得了适当电场下的有趣的Г-Х混和现象.     

能带混合量子阱的触发功能和异质谷间转移电子放大器件的研究

运用MonteCarlo理论模拟、二极管除穿伏安特性、器件振荡性能和射频输入信号激励下的放大功能研究了异质谷间转移电子器件中能带混合量子阱的触发功能。理论和实验研究发现，当能带混合量子讲中没有产生足够的异质谷间转移电子效应时，即使有源层中加有足够的电场仍然不能产生振荡。异质谷间转移电子效应成为器件进行射频工作的必要条件。在适当设计的器件中，运用输入射频信号也能激励异质谷间转移电子效应而触发输出放大信号。应用这一原理研制成8mm波段工作的稳态放大器，解决了二极管稳态放大器中的自激振荡问题。最后讨论了利用能带混合量子讲的触发功能来制作新的三端器件和各类功能器件的可能性。     

Demonstration of a hot‐carrier photovoltaic cell

We demonstrate a new hot‐carrier photovoltaic cell based on the resonant tunnelling of hot electrons from a narrow‐band‐gap semiconductor to a wider‐band‐gap semiconductor. Hot electrons are photogenerated at a variety of wavelengths in a GaAs absorber followed by resonant tunnelling through a double‐barrier quantum well into an AlGaAs collector, forming an energy‐selective interface in the centre of the device. We show theoretically the presence of a tunnel current from the absorber to the collector under illumination, offering a method to extract carriers from a hot‐electron distribution at zero bias. We experimentally demonstrate a hot‐carrier photovoltaic cell based on this concept. Two features of its measured current–voltage characteristic, namely the peak to valley current ratio and the current peak voltage, are shown to vary with the wavelength of illumination in a way that clearly demonstrates hot‐carrier extraction. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A novel model of the gate current in heterojunction FETs

The authors present a model of the gate current in heterojunction FETs that takes into account two-dimensional electron gas effects at the heterojunction interface. The gate current results from tunnel and thermionic contributions. This model takes into account a number of technological parameters such as heterojunction barrier height, threshold voltage, gate length, and temperature. It has been tested against experimental measurements of gate current in AlGaAs/GaAs MISFETs at various temperatures. The agreement has been found quite satisfactory in a large range of temperatures     

Electrical modeling of interface roughness in thin filmelectroluminescent devices

If two dielectric materials with different permittivities are in contact with each other and the interface between them is rough, then the electric field near this interface will be very inhomogeneous. In thin film electroluminescent devices, light is generated when electrons move back and forth in the phosphor layer under the influence of a strong ac electric field. At high electric fields, the electrons trapped in deep states at the interface between phosphor and insulator layer tunnel into the conduction band of the phosphor. This tunnel process is very sensitive to the electric field at the interface, so for a rough interface the electron flow will be very inhomogeneous. The relation between the interface roughness and the inhomogeneous charge transfer in thin film electroluminescent devices is investigated, based on an analytical flux tube model. The importance of the inhomogeneous current for the use of gray levels and aging is discussed     

The effect of subband quantization in the 2-D electron gas on thermionic current and heterojunction capacitance in an n-AlxGa1−xAs/n-GaAs heterojunction

The partition of the applied voltage between both sides of an n-AlGaAs/n-GaAs heterojunction is calculated, considering energy subband quantization in the very narrow triangular-like well in the GaAs and is used to calculate the thermionic current and the heterojunction capacitance as functions of the applied voltage. Comparison with classical calculations shows a difference of a few orders of magnitude in the current, especially in reverse bias, and a small difference in capacitance. By applying the model to self capacitance measured on heterojunction devices bounded with ohmic contacts on both sides, it is also shown how to obtain such parameters as conduction band discontinuity, doping in the AlGaAs, average distance of 2-D electron gas from the heterojunction, and sheet concentration. Experimental results using this method are within 10% of other recent determination of ΔE^c.     

Modeling of current transport and 1/f noise in heterojunction bipolar transistors

An analytic model is proposed to determine the effect of band offsets at heteroemitter interface on the current transport and 1/f noise in heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs). The proposed model uses the modified form of drift-diffusion formalism, which requires that the net recombination rates be proportional to the densities of other type carriers across the heterointerface. The numerical analysis of the current–voltage and 1/f noise characteristics of Npn AlGaAs/GaAs HBT and npn GaAs BJT demonstrates that the role of band offsets at heteroemitter interface in the overall current transport and 1/f noise is very important in HBTs at low forward biases. The junction resistance due to diffusing minority electrons is much stronger (weaker) at small (high) forward biases than that due to recombined electrons and holes across the heteroemitted space charge region in both Npn AlGaAs/GaAs HBTs and npn GaAs BJTs.     

用异质结构控制GaN阴极电子发射

从自洽求解薛定谔方程和泊松方程出发,研究了GaN异质结构上偏压变化时异质结电场的变化。发现异质结量子阱能把外电场屏蔽在异质界面以外。利用这种异质结量子阱的屏蔽效应,可以使外电场都降落在异质结表面来控制表面势。为了把表面电势剪裁成半导体阴极所需的陡直下降的电势结构,进一步深入研究了双势垒异质结的电场结构,发现外面的异质结能屏蔽里面异质结的势垒。利用这种双势垒异质结的屏蔽效应设计出可由偏压直接控制电子亲合势的异质结构,从而为半导体阴极开辟出一条新的研究途径。