Green Function Simulation Study of Non Self-Averaging Scattering Processes in Atomistic Semiconductor Devices |
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Authors: | John R Barker |
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Affiliation: | 1. Nanoelectronics Research Centre, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8LT, Scotland, UK
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Abstract: | The breakdown of the Kohn-Luttinger ansatz for self-averaging of impurity scattering is shown to occur in small finite semiconductor device structures when less than 1000 impurities are in the device volume. As a consequence the standard non-equilibrium Green function formalism for quantum transport is invalid. Instead, a non-self-averaged propagator formalism is proposed based on a T-matrix model for non-asymptotic finite-cluster scattering. The formalism is illustrated by a study of the charge density and current density profiles resulting from coherent flow through a finite atomistic device containing a small number of impurities. The flow typically separates into open streamlines and a set of blocking vortices. |
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