First-Principles Prediction of Carrier Mobility in Semiconductor Nanowires Based on the Spatially Dependent Boltzmann Transport Equation.

Carrier mobility in bulk semiconductors is typically governed by electron-phonon (e-ph) scattering. In nanostructures, finite size leads to significant surface scattering, thus lowering mobility and breaking the spatial homogeneity assumption of conv…

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