Papers by Author: Hiroya Ikeda

Abstract: We calculated the Seebeck coefficient of heavily-doped Si based on theoretical models of impurity-band formation, ionization-energy shift and conduction-band tailing. The impurity band was described by using two kinds of band-width definitions and it was found that the calculated Seebeck coefficient strongly depended on the impurity-band definition. In the high impurity-concentration region, the Seebeck coefficient decreased with increasing impurity concentration, and with a peak around 1×1019 cm-3. This result was qualitatively in good agreement with the experimental result, while there was quantitative disagreement between them.

Abstract: We propose a novel single-electron refrigerator (SER) which can be fabricated in silicon-on-insulator wafers. The SER has a structure of single-electron box combined with single-electron pump (SEP). An equivalent circuit of the SEP-refrigerator is represented and its stability diagram (Coulomb diamond) is theoretically calculated. It is found that the stability diagram has a honeycomb structure. Moreover, the operation of the single-electron transfer and single-electron storage is numerically demonstrated using a Monte Carlo simulation based on the orthodox theory of the Coulomb blockade phenomenon.