Multiband tight-binding approach to tunneling in semiconductor heterostructures: Application to Gamma X transfer in GaAs.
Multiband tight-binding approach to tunneling in semiconductor heterostructures: Application to Gamma X transfer in GaAs.
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半导体异质结构中隧道效应的多能带紧束缚方法:在 GaAs 中 Gamma X 传输中的应用。
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1993
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P. Lipavsk
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Stovneng Ja;P. Lipavsk
We study tunneling in semiconductor heterostructures where the constituent materials can have a direct or indirect bandgap. In order to have a good description of the lowest conduction band, we have used the nearest-- neighbour $sp^3s^*$ tight--binding model put forward by P. Vogl {em et al.}. A recursive Green--function method yields transmission coefficients from which an expression for the current density may be written down. The method is applied to GaAs/AlAs heterostructures. Electrons may traverse the AlAs barriers via different tunneling states $psi_{Gamma}$ and $psi_X$ ($Gamma X$ mixing). With an applied bias $V>0.5$ V electrons may enter the GaAs collector contact in both the $Gamma$ and the $X$ valley ($Gamma X$ transfer). We have studied a number of GaAs/AlAs structures. For very narrow barriers there is little $Gamma X$ transfer, but AlAs barriers wider than about 25 AA act as ``$Gamma X$ filters', i.e., most transmitted electrons have been transfered to the $X$ valley.