Mass transport, carrier structure

The chemical approach to increasing transport rates involves the manipulation of the PIM composition. It has been observed that some PIM compositions provide much higher transport rates than their SLM counterparts, but the reasons for this phenomenon remain unclear. In order to understand the chemical processes occurring in PIMs, a number of researchers have investigated the structure of PIMs with a view to obtaining information regarding the way the carrier and other membrane components interact and the mechanisms for mass transport within the membrane. It is anticipated that once there is a better understanding of the structure of PIMs, it will be possible to better formulate the composition to provide optimum transport rates. 

The volume of the laser ablation sample cell, the geometry, the type of carrier gas and its flow pattern, and the tubing properties of the transfer line to transport the aerosol into the ICP are all together important factors that contribute to the total transport process and the transient signal structure. The transport efficiency of laser-induced particles therefore restricts the detection ca-pabihties for laser ablation microanalysis. Any enhancement in the transport process will make it possible to decrease the laser spot size and still detect a signal from the ablated mass, and therefore wih lead to an increase of the spatial resolution that can be successfully used for laser ablation. 

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From the experimental side, the band-structure parameters are mainly determined from the cyclotron resonance (CR) spectra of electron and holes (see for instance [4]). Some of these parameters can also be obtained from the Zeeman splitting of electronic transitions of shallow impurities involving levels for which the electronic masses can be taken as those of free electrons or holes, or from the magnetoreflectivity of free carriers. Average effective masses can also be deduced from the Hall-effect measurements or from other transport measurements. Calculation methods that have been used to obtain band-structure parameters free from experimental input are the ab-initio pseudopotential method, the k-p method and a combination of both. These theoretical methods are presented in Chap. 2 of [107]. VB parameters at k = 0 including k and q have been calculated for several semiconductors with diamond and zinc-blended structures by Lawaetz [55]. 

The second insight that can be obtained from the electronic band structure is the mobility of charge carriers, which is related to the width of the conduction and valence bands. For Si the bands are rather broad, spanning more than 10 eV. This is a direct consequence of the extensive overlap of the sp orbitals on neighboring atoms. More overlap between atomic wavefunctions results in broader bands and easier transport of free charge carriers through the material. This can be quantified via the curvature of the individual bands, which is directly related to the effective mass and mobility of the charge carriers ... 

It should be noted that we can expect zone folding of the electronic band structure as well as the phonon dispersion, which is generally observed in SPSL. This might affect the effective mass, carrier transport properties, and so on. For example, we have observed additional phonon modes (folded modes) in Raman scattering of 4H-A1N. Characterization of the fundamental material properties of 4F1-A1N will be described in detail in future publications. 

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