Strong Electric Field Heating of Conduction-Band Electrons in Si
- 16 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 52 (16), 1445-1448
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.52.1445
Abstract
We demonstrate that average conduction-band electrons in a wide-band-gap insulator, Si, are heated several electronvolts above the conduction-band edge at fields of 5 to 12 MV/cm. The electronic energy distribution appears to be stabilized at these high fields by energy-loss mechanisms other than LO-phonon scattering.
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