Quantum Transport in Ultrasmall Devices: Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute on Quantum Transport in Ultrasmall Devices, held July 17-30, 1994, in II Ciocco, Italy

The operation of semiconductor devices depends upon the use of electrical potential barriers (such as gate depletion) in controlling the carrier densities (electrons and holes) and their transport. Although a successful device design is quite complicated and involves many aspects, the device engineering is mostly to devise a "best" device design by defIning optimal device structures and manipulating impurity profIles to obtain optimal control of the carrier flow through the device. This bec...