論文

査読有り 筆頭著者 責任著者
2021年8月6日

Quasiadiabatic electron transport in room temperature nanoelectronic devices induced by hot-phonon bottleneck

Nature Communications
  • Qianchun Weng
  • ,
  • Le Yang
  • ,
  • Zhenghua An
  • ,
  • Pingping Chen
  • ,
  • Alexander Tzalenchuk
  • ,
  • Wei Lu
  • ,
  • Susumu Komiyama

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研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1038/s41467-021-25094-5
出版者・発行元
Springer Science and Business Media LLC

<title>Abstract</title>Since the invention of transistors, the flow of electrons has become controllable in solid-state electronics. The flow of energy, however, remains elusive, and energy is readily dissipated to lattice via electron-phonon interactions. Hence, minimizing the energy dissipation has long been sought by eliminating phonon-emission process. Here, we report a different scenario for facilitating energy transmission at room temperature that electrons exert diffusive but quasiadiabatic transport, free from substantial energy loss. Direct nanothermometric mapping of electrons and lattice in current-carrying GaAs/AlGaAs devices exhibit remarkable discrepancies, indicating unexpected thermal isolation between the two subsystems. This surprising effect arises from the overpopulated hot longitudinal-optical (LO) phonons generated through frequent emission by hot electrons, which induce equally frequent LO-phonon reabsorption (“hot-phonon bottleneck”) cancelling the net energy loss. Our work sheds light on energy manipulation in nanoelectronics and power-electronics and provides important hints to energy-harvesting in optoelectronics (such as hot-carrier solar-cells).

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25094-5
URL
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25094-5.pdf
URL
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25094-5
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  • DOI : 10.1038/s41467-021-25094-5
  • eISSN : 2041-1723

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