2015
DOI: 10.1139/cjp-2015-0175
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Mechanisms of temperature- and field-dependent effective drift mobilities and impact ionization coefficients in amorphous selenium

Abstract: The mechanisms of electric-field-and temperature-dependent effective drift mobility and impact ionization coefficient of both holes and electrons in amorphous selenium (a-Se) are investigated in this paper. An analytical model for the microscopic mobility, momentum relaxation mean free path, and hence the effective drift mobility and impact ionization coefficient of carriers, is proposed in this paper by considering the density of states distribution, field enhancement release rate from the shallow traps, and … Show more

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“…Kasap and Rubel implemented a modified lucky-drift model for a -Se. , A feature of the modified lucky-drift model is an explicit treatment of elastic scattering due to the disorder potential inherent to amorphous solids, in addition to the inelastic scattering by nonpolar optical and acoustic phonons. The scattering by a disorder potential is assumed to be the dominant mechanism of the momentum relaxation for energetic electrons. In this work, we use an MC-based multiscale simulation framework, see Supporting Information (SI) section S1, to calculate the ENF as a function of gain and thickness in bulk a -Se films. Our work for the first time laid down quantum mechanical formulations using Fermi’s golden rule to calculate energy dependent phonon scattering (acoustic, polar optical emission/absorption, and nonpolar optical emission/aborption), hole-dipole scattering (caused by valence alternate pair type defects as scattering centers), disorder scattering (to account for the lack of long-range order in the amorphous phase), and impact ionization scattering rates in a -Se, as shown in Figure a. , The energy and momentum relaxation dynamics of the individual scattering mechanisms are summarized in Table .…”
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“…Kasap and Rubel implemented a modified lucky-drift model for a -Se. , A feature of the modified lucky-drift model is an explicit treatment of elastic scattering due to the disorder potential inherent to amorphous solids, in addition to the inelastic scattering by nonpolar optical and acoustic phonons. The scattering by a disorder potential is assumed to be the dominant mechanism of the momentum relaxation for energetic electrons. In this work, we use an MC-based multiscale simulation framework, see Supporting Information (SI) section S1, to calculate the ENF as a function of gain and thickness in bulk a -Se films. Our work for the first time laid down quantum mechanical formulations using Fermi’s golden rule to calculate energy dependent phonon scattering (acoustic, polar optical emission/absorption, and nonpolar optical emission/aborption), hole-dipole scattering (caused by valence alternate pair type defects as scattering centers), disorder scattering (to account for the lack of long-range order in the amorphous phase), and impact ionization scattering rates in a -Se, as shown in Figure a. , The energy and momentum relaxation dynamics of the individual scattering mechanisms are summarized in Table .…”
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“…To this problem, Canadian groups (with coworkers) have applied a lucky‐drift model for crystalline semiconductors after some modifications . They assumed, following the conventional carrier‐transport formulation under so‐called frozen‐lattice approximation, that holes, which are more mobile than electrons in a‐Se, gain sufficient kinetic energies for impact ionization through elastic collisions with disordered potentials .…”
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