The main aim of this work was to develop a method of screening HgCdTe materials for carrier concentration and mobility using Faraday rotation θ and absorption α. Faraday rotation provides N/m*2, where N is the carrier concentration and m* is the effective mass. Since m* was not known in HgCdTe, a Faraday rotation spectrometer was developed to systematically measure it as a function of temperature and Cd mole fraction. Effective masses in n-InSb, and n-GaAs were measured and compared with known values in the literature to validate the method. Mobility is proportional to θ/α. The proportionalities were determined in HgCdTe, n-InSb, and n-GaAs at infrared wavelengths.

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SILVA, Francisco Wellery Nunes. Transporte eletrônico em semicondutores porosos baseado na equação de Schrodinger dependente do tempo. 2012. 77 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Física) - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Física, Departamento de Física, Centro de Ciências, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, 2012. / Submitted by Edvander Pires (edvanderpires@gmail.com) on 2015-04-23T21:11:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_dis_fwnsilva.pdf: 12829801 bytes, checksum: 1fca3d2dc15fc07961d7231c6087fe50 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Edvander Pires(edvanderpires@gmail.com) on 2015-04-29T17:38:22Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_dis_fwnsilva.pdf: 12829801 bytes, checksum: 1fca3d2dc15fc07961d7231c6087fe50 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-29T17:38:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_dis_fwnsilva.pdf: 12829801 bytes, checksum: 1fca3d2dc15fc07961d7231c6087fe50 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / We propose in this work a theoretical study, of the properties of a electronic pulse, injected under a external bias, on a porous silicon layer, so that we could define fundamentally the shape of T X V and R X V curves, where T is the transmission coefficient and R is the reflection coefficient of the wave packet, trough the porous region. With this, we could make a simple calculation and obtain information about the electrical current in this material, using the very simple model I=Q/t, where we defined the time of transmission, as the time interval necessary for the electronic pulse to be consumed completely. This kind of approach is already known in the literature, propose by Lebedev and co-workers (1998). Using the definition of charge carrier mobility, we obtained information about it, since the principal aim of this work is the electronic transport in this kind of material, that despite a strong research on porous silicon, since the beginning of the nineties, the transport properties still remains a relatively unexplored area. The major incentive for this study is due to the strong possibility of application of this material in new optoelectronic devices such as LEDs. Along the development of this dissertation, we applied well known techniques for the computational modelling such as effective mass theory, for example, associated with methods like the periodic boundary conditions, and the absorbing boundary conditions. Treating of a quantum system, we begin all the work solving the time dependent Schröedinger equation. To do this task, we have used the numerical method known as Split-Operator, in order to obtain the solutions for this equation. Initially, the calculations in this dissertation where based in an isotropic effective mass, in order to optimise the calculation parameters. After this, we made calculations using an anisotropic effective mass for the different valleys of silicon. All these things leads us to believe that this work have a great importance regarding the contribution to the understanding of transport in electronic systems based on porous silicon, to maintain for some time the applications of this kind of material that was so revolutionary in the twentieth. / Neste trabalho, propomos um uma pesquisa teórica onde estudamos as propriedades de um pulso eletrônico em uma camada de silício poroso, injetado sob uma certa voltagem externa V. Desta forma, podemos definir fundamentalmente a forma das curvas T X V e R X V, onde T é o coeficiente de transmissão e R é o coeficiente de reflexão do pacote de onda através da região porosa. Aliado a estes dados, podemos fazer um cálculo simples e obter informações a respeito da corrente elétrica que atravessa o material, utilizando o modelo I=Q/t, onde definimos o tempo como o intervalo necessário para que o pulso seja consumido completamente, como proposto por Lebedev e colaboradores (1998). Utilizando a definição para mobilidade de portadores de carga, obtivemos informações sobre a mesma, pois este trabalho foca-se principalmente no estudo do transporte eletrônico neste tipo de material poroso, que apesar de um estudo intenso em silício poroso desde o início da década de noventa, as propriedades de transporte ainda permanecem um pouco inexploradas. O principal incentivo para que estudemos este material é devido à grande possibilidade da criação de dispositivos em opto-eletrônica tais como LEDs (Light Emissor Diode). Ao longo do desenvolvimento, empregamos técnicas já bem conhecidas para a modelagem de semicondutores, como a teoria da massa efetiva, por exemplo, associadas a técnicas de modelagem computacional, como o emprego de condições periódicas de contorno e condições de contorno absorvente. Por se tratar de um sistema quântico, tudo parte da solução da equação de Schrödinger dependente do tempo, e para executar esta tarefa fizemos uso de um método numérico conhecido como Split-Operator. Assim obtemos as soluções para a equação. Inicialmente, os cálculos realizados neste trabalho foram baseados em uma massa efetiva isotrópica, a fim de otimizar os parâmetros de cálculo, e só em seguida foram feitos cálculos baseando-se em massa efetiva anisotrópica para os diversos vales do silício poroso. Tudo isto nos leva a crer que este trabalho possui uma grande importância no que diz respeito à contribuição para o entendimento do transporte eletrônico em sistemas baseados em silício poroso, de forma a manter por mais algum tempo a aplicação deste tipo de material que foi tão revolucionário no século XX.

SILVA, Francisco Wellery Nunes. Transporte eletrônico em semicondutores porosos baseado na equação de Schrodinger dependente do tempo. 2012. 77 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Física) - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Física, Departamento de Física, Centro de Ciências, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, 2012. / Submitted by Edvander Pires (edvanderpires@gmail.com) on 2015-10-16T21:34:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_dis_fwnsilva.pdf: 12829801 bytes, checksum: 1fca3d2dc15fc07961d7231c6087fe50 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Edvander Pires(edvanderpires@gmail.com) on 2015-10-20T20:59:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_dis_fwnsilva.pdf: 12829801 bytes, checksum: 1fca3d2dc15fc07961d7231c6087fe50 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-10-20T20:59:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_dis_fwnsilva.pdf: 12829801 bytes, checksum: 1fca3d2dc15fc07961d7231c6087fe50 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / We propose in this work a theoretical study, of the properties of a electronic pulse, injected under a external bias, on a porous silicon layer, so that we could define fundamentally the shape of T X V and R X V curves, where T is the transmission coefficient and R is the reflection coefficient of the wave packet, trough the porous region. With this, we could make a simple calculation and obtain information about the electrical current in this material, using the very simple model I=Q/t, where we defined the time of transmission, as the time interval necessary for the electronic pulse to be consumed completely. This kind of approach is already known in the literature, propose by Lebedev and co-workers (1998). Using the definition of charge carrier mobility, we obtained information about it, since the principal aim of this work is the electronic transport in this kind of material, that despite a strong research on porous silicon, since the beginning of the nineties, the transport properties still remains a relatively unexplored area. The major incentive for this study is due to the strong possibility of application of this material in new optoelectronic devices such as LEDs. Along the development of this dissertation, we applied well known techniques for the computational modelling such as effective mass theory, for example, associated with methods like the periodic boundary conditions, and the absorbing boundary conditions. Treating of a quantum system, we begin all the work solving the time dependent Schröedinger equation. To do this task, we have used the numerical method known as Split-Operator, in order to obtain the solutions for this equation. Initially, the calculations in this dissertation where based in an isotropic effective mass, in order to optimise the calculation parameters. After this, we made calculations using an anisotropic effective mass for the different valleys of silicon. All these things leads us to believe that this work have a great importance regarding the contribution to the understanding of transport in electronic systems based on porous silicon, to maintain for some time the applications of this kind of material that was so revolutionary in the twentieth. / Neste trabalho, propomos um uma pesquisa teórica onde estudamos as propriedades de um pulso eletrônico em uma camada de silício poroso, injetado sob uma certa voltagem externa V. Desta forma, podemos definir fundamentalmente a forma das curvas T X V e R X V, onde T é o coeficiente de transmissão e R é o coeficiente de reflexão do pacote de onda através da região porosa. Aliado a estes dados, podemos fazer um cálculo simples e obter informações a respeito da corrente elétrica que atravessa o material, utilizando o modelo I=Q/t, onde definimos o tempo como o intervalo necessário para que o pulso seja consumido completamente, como proposto por Lebedev e colaboradores (1998). Utilizando a definição para mobilidade de portadores de carga, obtivemos informações sobre a mesma, pois este trabalho foca-se principalmente no estudo do transporte eletrônico neste tipo de material poroso, que apesar de um estudo intenso em silício poroso desde o início da década de noventa, as propriedades de transporte ainda permanecem um pouco inexploradas. O principal incentivo para que estudemos este material é devido à grande possibilidade da criação de dispositivos em opto-eletrônica tais como LEDs (Light Emissor Diode). Ao longo do desenvolvimento, empregamos técnicas já bem conhecidas para a modelagem de semicondutores, como a teoria da massa efetiva, por exemplo, associadas a técnicas de modelagem computacional, como o emprego de condições periódicas de contorno e condições de contorno absorvente. Por se tratar de um sistema quântico, tudo parte da solução da equação de Schrödinger dependente do tempo, e para executar esta tarefa fizemos uso de um método numérico conhecido como Split-Operator. Assim obtemos as soluções para a equação. Inicialmente, os cálculos realizados neste trabalho foram baseados em uma massa efetiva isotrópica, a fim de otimizar os parâmetros de cálculo, e só em seguida foram feitos cálculos baseando-se em massa efetiva anisotrópica para os diversos vales do silício poroso. Tudo isto nos leva a crer que este trabalho possui uma grande importância no que diz respeito à contribuição para o entendimento do transporte eletrônico em sistemas baseados em silício poroso, de forma a manter por mais algum tempo a aplicação deste tipo de material que foi tão revolucionário no século XX.

Orientador: Diógenes Galetti / Banca: Armando Nazareno Faria Aleixo / Banca: Maria Carolina Nemes / Banca: Miguel Alexandre Novak / Banca: Rogério Rosenfeld / Resumo: Utilizamos as abordagens de potencial e massa efetiva e a de espaço de fase quântico para caracterizar propriedades da molécula magnética de Fe8. Na abordagem de potencial e massa efetiva obtemos a altura da barreira do estado fundamental, o hiato de energia devido ao tunelamento, a medida da temperatura de crossover, o campo magnético de pareamento de níveis e o de saturação. Na descrição de espaço de fase quântico, estudamos qualitativamente as correlações entre o par de variáveis envolvidas através das funções de Wigner e Husimi, calculamos o hiato de energia associado ao tunelamento e fornecemos uma medida via funcional de entropia para a correlação entre as variáveis momento angular e ângulo e sua respectiva intepretação / Abstract: We have used an angle-based description and the quantum discrete phase space formalism to characterize Fe8 cluster properties. Through the angle-based approach we have calculated the the ground state barrier height, the energy splitting of the two lowest levels, the crossover temperature, the matching and the saturation magnetic field intensities. With the quantum phase space approach we also have used the energy splitting in order to study the spin tunneling of the lowest energy levels, a qualitative and a quantitative way to show the correlations between the angle and angular momentum variables via the Wigner and Husimi functions / Doutor

The intent of this thesis is to improve upon previously proposed tight-binding models for one dimensional black phosphorus, or phosphorene. Previous models offer only a qualitative analysis of the band structure of phosphorene, and fail to fully realize critical elements in the electronic band structure necessary for transport calculations. In this work we propose an improved tight-binding model for phosphorene by including up to eight nearest-neighbor interactions. The efficacy of the model is verified by comparison with DFT-HSE06 calculations, and the anisotropy of the effective masses in the armchair and zigzag directions is considered.

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This study seeks to evaluate the temperature effects on the electronic properties of thermoelectric materials, using first principles Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations by incorporating the temperature effects on structural properties of the material. Using the electronic properties attained, the charge carrier scattering relaxation times were determined. The effect of interface between PbTe and SrTe on the charge carrier mobility was studied by finding out the relative alignment of energy bands at the semiconductor heterojunction. The crystal shape of the SrTe precipitates in the PbTe host matrix was evaluated from the interface energies using the Wulffman construction. We also attempted to develop a relation between the interface energies and electronic band alignment for different interface orientations. In this research, we incorporated the temperature effects on the structural properties of PbTe to get the temperature dependence of electronic properties like energy bandgap and effective masses of charge carriers. We used the values of bandgap and effective masses to determine the charge carrier scattering relaxation time at different temperatures which is used in evaluating the transport properties of thermoelectric materials like the Seebeck coefficient and electrical conductivity. / Master of Science

In this thesis, we investigate optical and electrical properties of dilute nitride semiconductors GaAsN in pulsed magnetic fields up to 62 T. For the most part, the experiments are performed at the Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory (HLD). In the first part of this thesis, the electron effective mass of GaAsN is determined with a direct method for the first time. Cyclotron resonance (CR) absorption spectroscopy is performed in Si-doped GaAsN epilayers with a nitrogen content up to 0.2%. For the CR absorption study, we use the combination of the free-electron laser FELBE and pulsed magnetic fields at the HLD, both located at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. A slight increase of the CR electron effective mass with N content is obtained. This result is in excellent agreement with calculations based on the band anticrossing model and the empirical tight-binding method. We also find an increase of the band nonparabolicity with increasing N concentration in agreement with our calculations of the energy dependent momentum effective mass. In the second part of this thesis, the photoluminescence (PL) characteristics of intrinsic GaAsN and n-doped GaAsN:Si is studied. The PL of intrinsic and very dilute GaAsN is characterized by both GaAs-related transitions and N-induced features. These distinct peaks merge into a broad spectral band of localized excitons (LEs) when the N content is increased. This so-called LE-band exhibits a partially delocalized character because of overlapping exciton wave functions and an efficient interexcitonic population transfer. Merged spectra dominate the PL of all Si-doped GaAsN samples. They have contributions of free and localized excitons and are consequently blue-shifted with respect to LE-bands of intrinsic GaAsN. The highly merged PL profiles of GaAsN:Si are studied systematically for the first time with temperature-dependent time-resolved PL. The PL decay is predominantly monoexponential and has a strong energy dispersion. In comparison to formerly reported values of intrinsic GaAsN epilayers, the determined decay times of GaAsN:Si are reduced by a factor of 10 because of enhanced Shockley-Read-Hall and possibly Auger recombinations. In the third part of this thesis, intrinsic and Si-doped GaAsN are investigated with magneto-PL in fields up to 62 T. A magneto-PL setup for pulsed magnetic fields of the HLD was built for this purpose. The blue-shift of LE-bands is studied in high magnetic fields in order to investigate its delocalized character. The blue-shift is diminished in intrinsic GaAsN at higher temperatures, which indicates that the interexcitonic population transfer is only active below a critical temperature 20 K < T < 50 K. A similar increase of the temperature has no significant impact on the partially delocalized character of the merged spectral band of GaAsN:Si. We conclude that the interexcitonic transfer of Si-doped GaAsN is more complex than in undoped GaAsN. In order to determine reduced masses of undoped GaAsN and GaAs:Si, the field-induced shift of the free exciton transition is studied in the high-field limit. We find an excellent agreement of GaAs:Si with a formerly published value of intrinsic GaAs which was determined with the same method. In both cases, the reduced mass values are enhanced by 20% in comparison to the accepted reduced mass values of GaAs. The determined GaAsN masses are 1.5 times larger than in GaAs:Si and match the rising trend of formerly reported electron effective masses of GaAsN.