This PhD thesis is devoted to the study of physical phenomena in SiGe devices involving high energy carriers which can induce impact ionization. A thirty-band k.p method has been developed to model energy band diagrams of bulk and strained Si, Ge and SiGe alloys on the whole Brillouin zone in a large energy range (11 eV around the band gap). This method gives access to the Luttinger parameters and the conduction band effective masses with a very good accuracy. Associated with an envelop function algorithm, the band diagrams of SiGe quantum wells have been obtained in the valence and in the conduction band. From these band diagrams, carrier densities of states are obtained in bulk and strained semiconductors and in quantum wells. Hole densit...
An analytical geometric model for the valence band in strained and relaxed Si1-xGex is presented, wh...
A new microscopic silicon model for hole transport at high electric fields featuring two valence ban...
A new microscopic silicon model for hole transport at high electric fields featuring two valence ban...
This PhD thesis is devoted to the study of physical phenomena in SiGe devices involving high energy ...
Silicon–germanium alloys offer a system where the ratio of the electron impact ionization coefficien...
This thesis reports results of experimental and theoretical investigations of impact ionisation in s...
This thesis reports results of experimental and theoretical investigations of impact ionisation in s...
Aspects of high field transport related to hot electron reliability effects are investigated--with s...
Aspects of high field transport related to hot electron reliability effects are investigated--with s...
In this thesis, a Monte Carlo simulation algorithm has been specifically developed to simulate the h...
A general formalism is presented to study hot carrier relaxation in the valence band of strained and...
Band-to-band tunneling parameters of strained indirect bandgap materials are not well-known, hamperi...
The electroluminescence (EL) of thick fully strained SiGe layers is investigated in order to clarify...
The role of SiGe/Si heterostructures and related materials has become increasingly important within ...
We have measured the electron and hole impact ionization coefficients in Si1−xGex alloys. Carrier mu...
An analytical geometric model for the valence band in strained and relaxed Si1-xGex is presented, wh...
A new microscopic silicon model for hole transport at high electric fields featuring two valence ban...
A new microscopic silicon model for hole transport at high electric fields featuring two valence ban...
This PhD thesis is devoted to the study of physical phenomena in SiGe devices involving high energy ...
Silicon–germanium alloys offer a system where the ratio of the electron impact ionization coefficien...
This thesis reports results of experimental and theoretical investigations of impact ionisation in s...
This thesis reports results of experimental and theoretical investigations of impact ionisation in s...
Aspects of high field transport related to hot electron reliability effects are investigated--with s...
Aspects of high field transport related to hot electron reliability effects are investigated--with s...
In this thesis, a Monte Carlo simulation algorithm has been specifically developed to simulate the h...
A general formalism is presented to study hot carrier relaxation in the valence band of strained and...
Band-to-band tunneling parameters of strained indirect bandgap materials are not well-known, hamperi...
The electroluminescence (EL) of thick fully strained SiGe layers is investigated in order to clarify...
The role of SiGe/Si heterostructures and related materials has become increasingly important within ...
We have measured the electron and hole impact ionization coefficients in Si1−xGex alloys. Carrier mu...
An analytical geometric model for the valence band in strained and relaxed Si1-xGex is presented, wh...
A new microscopic silicon model for hole transport at high electric fields featuring two valence ban...
A new microscopic silicon model for hole transport at high electric fields featuring two valence ban...