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Phonon-assisted tunneling in direct-bandgap semiconductors
摘要: In tunnel ?eld-effect transistors, trap-assisted tunneling (TAT) is one of the probable causes for degraded subthreshold swing. The accurate quantum-mechanical (QM) assessment of TAT currents also requires a QM treatment of phonon-assisted tunneling (PAT) currents. Therefore, we present a multi-band PAT current formalism within the framework of the quantum transmitting boundary method. An envelope function approximation is used to construct the electron-phonon coupling terms corresponding to local Fr?hlich-based phonon-assisted inter-band tunneling in direct-bandgap III-V semiconductors. The PAT current density is studied in up to 100 nm long and 20 nm wide p-n diodes with the 2- and 15-band material description of our formalism. We observe an inef?cient electron-phonon coupling across the tunneling junction. We further demonstrate the dependence of PAT currents on the device length, for our non-self-consistent formalism which neglects changes in the electron distribution function caused by the electron-phonon coupling. Finally, we discuss the differences in doping dependence between direct band-to-band tunneling and PAT current.
关键词: phonon-assisted tunneling,quantum-mechanical modeling,tunnel ?eld-effect transistors,electron-phonon coupling,direct-bandgap semiconductors
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Light emission properties in a double quantum dot molecule immersed in a cavity: Phonon-assisted tunneling
摘要: Two main mechanisms dictate the tunneling process in a double quantum dot: overlap of excited wave functions, effectively described as a tunneling rate, and phonon-assisted tunneling. In this paper, we study different regimes of tunneling that arise from the competition between these two mechanisms in a double quantum dot molecule immersed in a unimodal optical cavity. We show how such regimes affect the mean number of excitations in each quantum dot and in the cavity, the spectroscopic resolution and emission peaks of the photoluminescence spectrum, and the second-order coherence function which is an indicator of the quantumness of emitted light from the cavity.
关键词: Double quantum dot,Light-matter interaction,Second-order coherence function,Phonon-assisted tunneling
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52