Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Quasiadiabatic electron transport in room temperature nanoelectronic devices induced by hot-phonon bottleneck

  • Qianchun Weng,
  • Le Yang,
  • Zhenghua An,
  • Pingping Chen,
  • Alexander Tzalenchuk,
  • Wei Lu,
  • Susumu Komiyama

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25094-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Minimizing the energy dissipation is usually sought by eliminating phonon-emission process. Here, the authors find a different approach for facilitating energy transmission at room temperature that electrons exert diffusive but quasiadiabatic transport, free from substantial energy loss.