Reassessment of the intrinsic carrier density in crystalline silicon in view of band-gap narrowing

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1598-1604

  Altermatt, Pietro P ^a,b   Schenk, Andreas ^c   Geelhaar, Frank ^c   Heiser, Gernot ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Inianga Consulting   (Australia)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BAND STRUCTURE; CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

INTRINSIC CARRIER DENSITY;

CARRIER CONCENTRATION;

EID: 0037320144     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1529297     Document Type: Article

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