Electron scattering on disordered double barrier GaAs-Al$_x$Ga$_{1-x}$As heterostructures

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We present a novel model to calculate vertical transport properties such as conductance and current in unintentionally disordered double barrier GaAs-Al$_x$Ga$_{1-x}$As heterostructures. The source of disorder comes from interface roughness at the heterojunctions (lateral disorder) as well as spatial inhomogeneities of the Al mole fraction in the barriers (compositional disorder). Both lateral and compositional disorder break translational symmetry along the lateral direction and therefore electrons can be scattered off the growth direction. The model correctly describe channel mixing due to these elastic scattering events. In particular, for realistic degree of disorder, we have found that the effects of compositional disorder on transport properties are negligible as compared to the effects due to lateral disorder.
19 pages, 8 figures

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Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/18653

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https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0112216
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