Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2007-01-25
Phys. Rev. B 75, 195330 (2007)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
10 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.75.195330
We have measured the weak localization magnetoresistance in (001)-oriented Si MOS structures with a wide range of mobilities. For the quantitative analysis of the data, we have extended the theory of weak-localization corrections in the ballistic regime to the system with two equivalent valleys in electron spectrum. This theory describes the observed magnetoresistance and allows the extraction of the phase breaking time tau_phi and the intervalley scattering time tau_v. The temperature dependences tau_phi(T) for all studied structures are in good agreement with the theory of electron-electron interaction effects in two-dimensional systems. The intervalley scattering is elastic and rather strong: tau_v is typically only an order of magnitude greater than the transport time, tau. It is found that the intervalley scattering rate is temperature-independent and the ratio tau_v/tau decreases with increasing the electron density. These observations suggest that the roughness of the Si-SiO2 interface plays the major role in intervalley scattering.
Averkiev N. S.
Gershenson Michael E.
Klimov Nikolai N.
Kojima Hedeyasu
Kuntsevich Yu. A.
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