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Chapter 5: Carrier Transport Phenomena - FKE

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Microelectronics I<br />

5.1 <strong>Carrier</strong> Drift<br />

Drift current density<br />

Consider a positively charged hole,<br />

When electric field, E, is applied, the hole accelerates<br />

F = mp<br />

a =<br />

*<br />

m*p; effective mass of hole, a; acceleration, e; electronic charge<br />

However, hole collides with ionized impurity atoms and with thermally vibrating<br />

lattice atom<br />

Lattice atom<br />

hole<br />

Ionized impurity atom<br />

eE<br />

E

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