Nonequilibrium Green’s-function method applied to double-barrier resonant-tunneling diodes
- 15 March 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 45 (12), 6670-6685
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.45.6670
Abstract
The effect of inelastic scattering on quantum electron transport through double-barrier resonant-tunneling structures with large cross-sectional areas is studied numerically using the approach based on the nonequilibrium Green’s-function formalism of Keldysh, Kadanoff, and Baym. The Markov assumption is not made, and the energy coordinate is retained. This makes the inclusion of the phonon-energy spectrum straightforward both conceptually and in practice. The electron-phonon interaction is treated in the self-consistent first Born approximation (SCFBA). The Pauli exclusion principle is taken into account exactly within the SCFBA. The retention of the energy coordinate allows the calculation of a number of quantities that give insight into the effect of inelastic scattering on electron transport: The effect of inelastic scattering on the occupation of the energy levels, the density of states, the energy distribution of the current density, and the power density is calculated from a quantum kinetic equation for actual device structures under high bias.Keywords
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