Effective Mass and Mobility of Holes in Strained Si1-xgex layers on (001) Si1-yGeySubstrate

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1992, Pages 2153-2164

  Chun, Sang Kook ^a   Wang, Kang L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

HOLES MOBILITY; STRAINED LAYERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 0026925333     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.155887     Document Type: Article

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