Temperature dependence of the energy gap and free carrier absorption in bulk InAs0.05Sb0.95 single crystals

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 26, 2003, Pages 4720-4722

  Bansal, Bhavtosh ^a   Dixit, V K ^a,b   Venkataraman, V ^a   Bhat, H L ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; ENERGY GAP; THERMAL EFFECTS; THIN FILMS;

FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 0038105405     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1587002     Document Type: Article

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