Resonant transport throught semiconductor nanostructures

Details Resonant transport throught semiconductor nanostructures Resonant transport throught semiconductor nanostructures

2004-04-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0404425v1

Recent Res. Devel. Physics 4, 387-416 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

27 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

Transport through semiconductor nanostructures is a quantum-coherent process. This paper focuses on systems in which the electron's dynamics is ballistic and the transport is dominated by the scattering from structure boundaries. Opposite to the well-known case of the nuclear reactions, the potentials defining semiconductor structures are nonspherically symmetric and the asymptotic motion of the electrons is determined by the different potential levels in the contacts. For this special type of potential the mathematical foundations for the scattering theoretical description of the transport phenomena are presented. The transport properties of the system are then derived from the scattering matrix using the Landauer-Buttiker formalism. A rigorous analysis of the analytical properties of the S matrix leads to the most general resonant line shape described by a Fano function with a complex asymmetry parameter. On this basis the resonant and nonresonant contributions to the conductance and capacitance of the system are identified.

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