Monte Carlo simulation of hole transport in SiGe alloys

This paper employs Ensemble Monte Carlo method to simulate transport of holes in SiGe alloys. A three-band model was employed to describe the valence band of these alloys. The nonparabolicity and the warping effect of the heavy-hole and light-hole bands were considered in their dispersion relation,...

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Autores: Soares, Caroline dos Santos, Rossetto, Alan Carlos Junior, Vasileska, Dragica, Wirth, Gilson Inacio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:www.lume.ufrgs.br:10183/259719
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10183/259719
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Microeletrônica
Simulação computacional
Perturbações de carga
Ensemble Monte Carlo
Hole transport
SiGe alloys
Alloy disorder scattering
Dispersion relation
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Sumario:This paper employs Ensemble Monte Carlo method to simulate transport of holes in SiGe alloys. A three-band model was employed to describe the valence band of these alloys. The nonparabolicity and the warping effect of the heavy-hole and light-hole bands were considered in their dispersion relation, while the split-off band was described as parabolic and spherical. We consider phonon and alloy disorder scattering in these calculations. The mobility of holes for a range of SiGe al-loys was calculated at 300K. The simulation mobility results agree with the experimental data, implying that the selected transport model for holes in SiGe alloys is adequate.