Determination of Hot Electron Versus Phonon-Assisted Tunneling Effects in Double Barrier Resonant Tunneling Structures

这项核磁共振研究计划补助金（RPG）将使一位年轻的少数族裔女性教员能够在电子材料中的量子效应现象领域提出具有竞争力的建议。她的背景和专业知识是这些材料和结构的MBE增长。所要求的RPG将为PI提供所需的支持，以收集和审查额外的文献，仔细制定适合她打算遵循的研究路线的双势垒共振隧道结构设计和增长所需的材料计算，并与该领域的活跃研究人员建立直接联系。以及正在进行的进一步合作。该领域的研究方向是在半导体薄层中制造的量子约束结构的双势垒共振隧道条件下研究热电子和声子辅助隧道效应。该研究为先进的电子和光子器件奠定了基础，这些器件具有超越传统器件结构和配置的潜在性能。

This MRI Research Planning Grant (RPG) will enable a young minority woman faculty member to develop a competitive proposal in the area of quantum effect phenomena in electronic materials. Her background and expertise is in the MBE growth of such materials and structures. The requested RPG will provide the PI with the support needed to gather and review additional literature, carefully formulate materials calculations needed for design and growth of double barrier resonant tunneling structures appropriate to the line of research she intends to follow, to establish direct contacts with active researchers in this field, and to further collaborations in progress. %%% Research in this field is oriented toward the examination of hot electron and phonon-assisted tunneling effects under double barrier resonant tunneling conditions associated with quantum confinement structures fabricated in thin layers of semiconductors. The research forms the basis for advanced electronic and photonic devices having potential performance beyond conventional device structures and configurations.