Nanoelectronic Modeling Lecture 35: Alloy Disorder in Nanowires

By Gerhard Klimeck1; Timothy Boykin2; Neerav Kharche1; Mathieu Luisier1; Neophytos Neophytou3

1. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 2. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 3. Technical University of Vienna, Austria

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Abstract

This presentation discusses the consequences of Alloy Disorder in unstrained strained AlGaAs nanowires

  • Relationship between dispersion relationship and transmission in perfectly ordered wires
  • Band folding in Si nanowires
  • Tranmisison in disordered wires – relationship to an approximate bandstructre
  • Reminder of the origin of bandstructure and bandstructure engineering
  • Localization of wavefunctions

Learning Objectives:

  1. Alloy wires are NOT smooth
  2. “Conduction band edge” flucatuates locally
  3. Dispersion changes
  4. Transmission and Density of states show localization effects

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Researchers should cite this work as follows:

  • Gerhard Klimeck, Timothy Boykin, Neerav Kharche, Mathieu Luisier, Neophytos Neophytou (2010), "Nanoelectronic Modeling Lecture 35: Alloy Disorder in Nanowires," https://nanohub.org/resources/9280.

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Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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