Rigid ion model of high field transport inGaN

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Yamakawa, Shinya ^a,b   Akis, Richard ^a,b   Faralli, Nicolas ^a,b   Saraniti, Marco ^a,b   Goodnick, Stephen M ^a,b  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PHONONS; ALGAN/GAN; ANHARMONIC; ANISOTROPIC DEFORMATIONS; CARRIER DENSITIES; CELLULAR MONTE CARLO; DEFORMATION POTENTIALS; DETAILED BALANCES; EIGENVECTORS; ENERGY RELAXATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; HEXAGONAL WURTZITE STRUCTURES; HIGH-FIELD TRANSPORTS; HOT PHONONS; I-V MEASUREMENTS; IONIZED IMPURITY SCATTERINGS; LATTICE DYNAMICS; LO PHONONS; NON EQUILIBRIUMS; NONEQUILIBRIUM PHONONS; OPTICAL MODES; PEAK VELOCITIES; PHONON DISPERSIONS; POLAR OPTICAL PHONON SCATTERINGS; POLARIZATION EFFECTS; PSEUDOPOTENTIAL; PSEUDOPOTENTIALS; VELOCITY-FIELD CHARACTERISTICS; ZINC BLENDES;

ACOUSTICS; ANISOTROPY; ATOMS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DEFORMATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GALLIUM NITRIDE; SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SOLIDS; VELOCITY; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

IONS;

EID: 65449171163     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/17/174206     Document Type: Article

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