title: Significant enhancement of hole mobility in [110] silicon nanowires compared to electrons and bulk silicon.
abstract: Utilizing sp3d5s* tight-binding band structure and wave functions for electrons and holes we show that acoustic phonon limited hole mobility in [110] grown silicon nanowires (SiNWs) is greater than electron mobility. The room temperature acoustically limited hole mobility for the SiNWs considered can be as high as 2500 cm2/V s, which is nearly three times larger than the bulk acoustically limited silicon hole mobility. It is also shown that the electron and hole mobility for [110] grown SiNWs exceed those of similar diameter [100] SiNWs, with nearly 2 orders of magnitude difference for hole mobility. Since small diameter SiNWs have been seen to grow primarily along the [110] direction, results strongly suggest that these SiNWs may be useful in future electronics. Our results are also relevant to recent experiments measuring SiNW mobility.
authors.affiliation: Nanotechnology Program, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Ontario N2T 1P8, Canada. abuin@ecemail.uwaterloo.ca
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Buin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Verma
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Svizhenko
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Anantram
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D004579:Electron Transport; D004583:Electrons; D008956:Models, Chemical; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D010316:Particle Size; D012825:Silicon / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D012825:Silicon