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Ab initio study of hot electrons in GaAs
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Bernardi M
; Vigil-Fowler D
; Ong CS
; Neaton JB
; Louie SG
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
2015[Apr]; 112
(17
): 5291-6
PMID25870287
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Hot carrier dynamics critically impacts the performance of electronic,
optoelectronic, photovoltaic, and plasmonic devices. Hot carriers lose energy
over nanometer lengths and picosecond timescales and thus are challenging to
study experimentally, whereas calculations of hot carrier dynamics are cumbersome
and dominated by empirical approaches. In this work, we present ab initio
calculations of hot electrons in gallium arsenide (GaAs) using density functional
theory and many-body perturbation theory. Our computed electron-phonon relaxation
times at the onset of the ?, L, and X valleys are in excellent agreement with
ultrafast optical experiments and show that the ultrafast (tens of femtoseconds)
hot electron decay times observed experimentally arise from electron-phonon
scattering. This result is an important advance to resolve a controversy on hot
electron cooling in GaAs. We further find that, contrary to common notions, all
optical and acoustic modes contribute substantially to electron-phonon
scattering, with a dominant contribution from transverse acoustic modes. This
work provides definitive microscopic insight into hot electrons in GaAs and
enables accurate ab initio computation of hot carriers in advanced materials.