A novel interface roughness due to the perturbation of the periodic interface structure is studied theoretically for a lateral superlattice realized by an interface corrugated quantum well. It is found by numerical si...A novel interface roughness due to the perturbation of the periodic interface structure is studied theoretically for a lateral superlattice realized by an interface corrugated quantum well. It is found by numerical simulation that the correlation function for interface roughness can be well modeled by a sinusoidal function with an exponential decay in the direction of corrugation. Such a feature makes the correlation function far from a Gaussian function which is extensively used as a theoretical approximation of the correlation function for interface roughness. With such a correlation function, the influence of interface roughness scattering on electronic transport in the lateral superlattice is investigated.Consequently, it gives rise to a high anisotropy of electronic transport both in the absence and presence of a magnetic field, by which the relevant experiments can be well explained.展开更多
文摘A novel interface roughness due to the perturbation of the periodic interface structure is studied theoretically for a lateral superlattice realized by an interface corrugated quantum well. It is found by numerical simulation that the correlation function for interface roughness can be well modeled by a sinusoidal function with an exponential decay in the direction of corrugation. Such a feature makes the correlation function far from a Gaussian function which is extensively used as a theoretical approximation of the correlation function for interface roughness. With such a correlation function, the influence of interface roughness scattering on electronic transport in the lateral superlattice is investigated.Consequently, it gives rise to a high anisotropy of electronic transport both in the absence and presence of a magnetic field, by which the relevant experiments can be well explained.
