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Frequency Dependence of Hopping Conductance in Electron Irradiated Semiconductors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

S. D. Kouimizi  and
J. J. Thomson
S. D. Kouimizi
Affiliation:
Physical Laboratory, University of Reading, Reading, U.K., and University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
J. J. Thomson
Affiliation:
Physical Laboratory, University of Reading, Reading, U.K., and University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Abstract

A sufficient degree of electron irradiation induced damage in Si, Ge, InSb, and InAs has allowed the observation of hopping conductance having a sublinear frequency dependence of s ∝ ws with s ≤ 1. The dependence of s on both the degree of the induced damage and on temperature is studied and discussed in terms of the quantum mechanical tunnelling and the correlated barrier hopping mechanisms.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 138: Symposium Q – Characterization of the Structure and Chemistry of Defects in Materials , 1988 , 285
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1989

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