Nonequilibrium Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductors (eBook)

Preface 6
Contents 7
Electron transport in curved low dimensional electron systems 14
Fabrication and Characterization of InAs Mesoscopic Devices 19
Nonlinear Effects on Quantum Interference in Electron Billiards 23
Prediction of Entanglement Detection by I- V Characteristics 27
Simulation of Entanglement Creation for Carrier- Impurity Scattering in a 2D System 31
Super- Poissonian Current Fluctuations in Tunneling Through Coupled Quantum Dots 35
Ultrafast Formation of Coupled Phonon- Plasmon Modes in InP Observed with Femtosecond Terahertz Spectroscopy 40
Optical Coherent Control of Polariton Modes in ZnSe Single- Quantum Wells 44
Optical Properties of Coupled Quantum Disk- Waveguide Structure 48
Picosecond Spin- Preserving Carrier Capture in InGaAs/ GaAs Quantum Dots 52
Influence of Surfaces on the Pure Dephasing of Quantum Dots 56
Exploiting the Non- Marlcovian Nature of Carrier- Phonon Dynamics: Multi- Pulse Control of Decoherence in Quantum Dots 60
Numerical Study of Weak Localization Effects in Disordered Cavities 65
Carrier Scattering by Optical Phonons, Two- Phonon Processes in Photon Absorption, and Spontaneous Polarization in Wurtzites 69
Terahertz Plasma Oscillations in Nanotransistors 73
High- Intensity THz Radiation From a Large Interdigitated Array Photoconductive Emitter 82
Broadband Terahertz Emission From Ion- Implanted Semiconductors 86
THz Collective Real- Space Oscillations of Ballistic Electrons in Wide Parabolic Potential Wells: an Exotic Transport Regime 90
Effect of Injector Doping on Non- Equilibrium Electron Dynamics in Mid- Infrared GaAs/ AlGaAs Quantum Cascade Lasers 94
Experimental Investigation of Hot Carriers in THz and Mid- IR Quantum Cascade Lasers 98
Time- and Spectrally Resolved THz Photoconductivity in Quantum Hall Devices 103
Transport Properties and Terahertz Emission in Narrow Minigap GaAs- GaAlAs Superlattices 107
Investigation of Antenna- Coupled MOM Diodes for Infrared Sensor Applications 112
Transport and Noise in Ultrafast Unipolar Nanodiodes and Nanotransistors 116
Monte Carlo Study of Coupled SO Phonon- Plasmon Scattering in Si MOSFETs with High K- Dielectric Gate Stacks: Hot Electron and Disorder Effects 121
Implementation of Separable Scattering Mechanisms in Three- Dimensional Quantum Mechanical Simulations of Devices 126
A 2D- NEGF Quantum Transport Study of Unintentional Charges in a Double Gate Nanotransistor 130
Wigner Function RTD Simulations with DMS Barriers 134
High Field Transport in GaN and AlGaN/ GaN Heterojunction Field Effect Transistors 138
Impact Ionization and High- Field Electron Transport inGaN 144
Studies of High Field Transport in a High- Quality InN Film by Ultrafast Raman Spectroscopy 148
Monte Carlo Investigation of Dynamic Transport in Nitrides 152
High- Field Transport in Nitride Channels: a Hot- Phonon Bottleneck 156
Quantum Transport and Spin Polarization in Strongly Biased Semiconductor Superlattices with Rashba Spin- Orbit Coupling 160
Temperature Dependent Transport in Spin Valve Transistor Structures 164
Spin Filtering Effects in a Quantum Point Contact 168
Exchange Effects in the Wigner- Function Approach 172
Few- Particle Quantum Transmitting Boundary Method: Scattering Resonances Through a Charged ID Quantum Dot 176
The R- E Approach to Tunnelling in Nanoscale Devices 180
Monte Carlo Simulation of Solid- State Thermionic Energy Conversion Devices Based on Non- Planar Heterostructure Interfaces 184
Simulations of Inelastic Tunnelling in Molecular Bridges 188
Phonon Effects in Nanotubes: Phase Space Reduction and Electron Conductance 192
Carbon Nanotubes Films for Sensing Applications: From Piezoresistive Sensor to Gas Sensing 196
Electro- Thermal Transport in Silicon and Carbon Nanotube Devices 200
Silicon- Based Ion Channel Platforms 205
Implicit Water Simulations of Non- Equilibrium Charge Transport in Ion Channels 209
An Investigation of the Dependence of Ionic Conduction on the Dielectric Properties of Porin 214
Physical Mechanisms for Ion- Current Levelling Off in the KcsA Channel Through Combined Monte Carlo/ Molecular Dynamics Simulations 219
Simulations of the Gramicidin A Channel by Using the TR- PNP Model 223
Phonon Emission and Absorption by Holes in the HOMO Bands of Duplex DNA 227
An Impedance Network Model for the Electrical Properties of a Single- Protein Nanodevice 231
Field Effect Transistor Constructed of Novel Structure With Short- Period ( GaAs)n/( AlAs) m Superlattice 235
Predominance of Geminate Process of Exciton Formation in AlGaAs Layers at Low Excitation 239
Giant Increase of Electron Saturated Drift Velocity in a MODFET Channel 247
Technological Crossroads: Silicon or III- V for Future Generation Nanotransistors 251
Optical Phonon Modes and Electron- Phonon Interaction in a Spheroidal Quantum Dot 255
Terahertz Negative Differential Conductivity in Heterostructures due to Population Inversion and Bunching of Ballistic Electrons 259
Carrier Dynamics of Single ZnO Nanowires 263
Traditional Hot- Electron MOS Devices for Novel Optoelectronic Applications 267
Investigation of Self- Heating Effects in Individual SOI Devices and Device- Device Interactions 271
Measurements of the Electrical Excitation of QH-Devices in the Real Time Domain 275
Impact Ionization and Avalanche Multiplication in AlGaAs: a Time- Resolved Study 279
Fermi- Dirac Statistics in Monte Carlo Simulations of InGaAs MOSFETs 283
Monte Carlo Study of the Suppression of Diffusion Noise 288
TeraHertz Emission From Nanometric HEMTs Analyzed by Noise Spectra 292
Electron Transport in Novel Sb- based Quantum Cascade Lasers 296
Quantum Phonon- Limited High- Field Electron Transport in Semiconductors 301
Transit Time and Velocity Distribution Functions in Decananometer Gate- Lengtli SOI MOSFETs 305
Collision of Fano Resonances in a Molecular Ring 309
Simulation of Domain Formation in p- Si/ SiGe Quantum Cascade Structures 313
Calculation of Optical Gain and Electron Relaxation Rates in Single- and Double- Phonon Resonant Quantum Cascade Lasers in a Magnetic Field 317
Curvature- Dependent Conductance Resonances in Quantum Cavities 321
Mid- Infrared Optical Absorption in Germanium Under Intense Laser Fields 325
Interface Related Radiative Recombination on a Type- II Broken- Gap Single GalnAsSb/ InAs Heteroj unction 329
Drift and Diffusion in Superlattices Within the Wannier- Stark Approach 333
Ballistic Transport in Arbitrary Oriented Nanowire MOSFETs 337
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Ultrathin Silicon-on- Insulator 341
Effect of Regular and Irregular Potential Perturbations in Mesoscopic Cavities 345
Simulation of Electronic/ Ionic Mixed Conduction in Solid Ionic Memories 349
Full- Band Modeling of Magnetic Semiconductors 353
Non- Parabolic Model for the Solution of 2- D Quantum Transverse States Applied to Narrow Conduction Channel Simulation 363
Self- Consistent Quantum Transport Theory of Carrier Capture in Heterostructures 367