Generalized Einstein relation for disordered semiconductors with exponential distributions of tail states and square-root distributions of band states

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1998-2000

  Nguyen, Thanh H ^a   O'Leary, Stephen K ^b  

^a Info Systems Management Corporation   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; DIFFUSION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

TAIL STATES;

SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

EID: 0141920597     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1604178     Document Type: Article

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