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Abstract
A study of the effect of bismuth dopant on the electronic transport properties of the amorphous semiconductors Ge20S80-xBix under high pressure (up to 140 kbar) has been carried out down to liquid-nitrogen temperature. The experiments reveal that the electronic conduction is strongly composition dependent and is thermally activated with a single activation energy at all pressures and for all compositions. A remarkable resemblance between the electronic conduction process, x-ray diffraction studies, and differential thermal analysis results is revealed. It is proposed that the n-type conduction in germanium chalcogenides doped with a large Bi concentration is due to the effect of Bi dopants on the positive correlation energy defects present in germanium chalcogenides. The impurity-induced chemical modification of the network creates a favorable environment for such an interaction.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publication: | Physical Review B |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to American Physical Society |
Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Instrumentation Appiled Physics |
Date Deposited: | 28 May 2009 07:12 |
Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2010 05:32 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/20207 |
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