The linear combination of bulk bands-method for electron and hole subband calculations in strained silicon films and surface layers

Proceedings - 2009 13th International Workshop on Computational Electronics, IWCE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Sverdlov, Viktor ^a   Baumgartner, Oskar ^a   Kosina, Hans ^a   Selberherr, Siegfried ^a   Schanovsky, Franz ^b   Esseni, David ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONICS   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONICS   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE MASS; EFFECTIVE MASS APPROXIMATION; EMPIRICAL PSEUDOPOTENTIAL METHOD; FULL BAND STRUCTURES; GENERALIZED METHOD; HOLE SUBBAND STRUCTURE; HOLE SUBBANDS; LINEAR COMBINATION OF BULK BANDS; QUANTUM NUMBERS; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; STRAINED SILICON FILMS; SUB-BANDS; SURFACE LAYERS; THIN SILICON FILMS;

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; IONIC CONDUCTION; METALLIC FILMS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

SHEAR STRAIN;

EID: 70350241399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWCE.2009.5091158     Document Type: Conference Paper

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