Non-linear additives to the Brooks-Herring screened potential

TL;DR

This paper calculates non-linear corrections to the Brooks-Herring potential and assesses their impact on ionized impurity scattering mobility in n-GaAs, revealing significant mobility changes and symmetry breaking effects.

Contribution

It introduces the calculation of non-linear additives to the Brooks-Herring potential and evaluates their effects on impurity mobility in n-GaAs.

Findings

Mobility changes up to 50% due to non-linear additives.

Significant mobility variation near the Mott transition at low temperatures.

Non-linear additives break the symmetry of the scattering cross section.

Abstract

In the present work we calculate the non-linear additives to the Brooks-Herring electrostatic screened potential. We also calculate the corresponding additives to the ionized impurity scattering mobility in n-GaAs over a wide range of doping levels and temperatures. It is demonstrated that the additives to the mobility changes its value up to 50%. The most dramatically mobility is changed near the Mott transition, when the doping level is about $10^{14}$ - $2\times10^{16}$ cm$^{-3}$ and temperature is below 50 K. Also, the results allow us to conclude that the non-linear additives break the cross section symmetry with respect to the sign of the charge of the scattering center.