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Generalized Boltzmann relations in semiconductors including band tails

Beckers, Arnout  
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Beckers, Dominique
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Jazaeri, Farzan  
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January 28, 2021
Journal Of Applied Physics

Boltzmann relations are widely used in semiconductor physics to express the charge-carrier densities as a function of the Fermi level and temperature. However, these simple exponential relations only apply to sharp band edges of the conduction and valence bands. In this article, we present a generalization of the Boltzmann relations accounting for exponential band tails. To this end, the required Fermi-Dirac integral is first recast as a Gauss hypergeometric function followed by a suitable transformation of that special function and a zeroth-order series expansion using the hypergeometric series. This results in simple relations for the electron and hole densities that each involve two exponentials. One exponential depends on the temperature and the other one on the band-tail parameter. The proposed relations tend to the Boltzmann relations if the band-tail parameters tend to zero. This work is timely for the modeling of semiconductor devices at cryogenic temperatures for large-scale quantum computing.

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DOI
10.1063/5.0037432
Web of Science ID

WOS:000630499600001

Author(s)
Beckers, Arnout  
Beckers, Dominique
Jazaeri, Farzan  
Parvais, Bertrand
Enz, Christian  
Date Issued

2021-01-28

Publisher

AMER INST PHYSICS

Published in
Journal Of Applied Physics
Volume

129

Issue

4

Article Number

045701

Subjects

Physics, Applied

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Physics

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