Nature Communications (May 2022)

Mobility enhancement in heavily doped semiconductors via electron cloaking

  • Jiawei Zhou,
  • Hangtian Zhu,
  • Qichen Song,
  • Zhiwei Ding,
  • Jun Mao,
  • Zhifeng Ren,
  • Gang Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29958-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Doping is central to solid-state devices and generally believed to hinder electron transport. Here, the authors show that certain dopants can cloak themselves from electrons and achieve higher mobility than the conventional limit.