Abstract
Carriers held to a region near the surface by the potential well of a space charge layer may have their mobility reduced by surface scattering, if the width of the well is of the order of a mean free path. An effective mobility, which may differ from the bulk mobility by as much as a factor of ten, has been obtained from a solution of the Boltzmann equation. Solutions have been carried out for two types of potential functions: (a) a linear potential corresponding to a constant space-charge field, and (b) a solution of Poisson's equation including an external bias applied normal to the surface. The results have been used to calculate changes in surface conductance of germanium with changes in surface potential and predict the "field effect" and "channel effect" mobilities.
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