Transport and phototransport in amorphous and nanostructured semiconductors

Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 587-600

  Balberg, I ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Band tails; Extended states; Hopping; Localized states; Mobility edge; Percolation; Quantum confinement; Resonant tunneling and coulomb blockade; Tunneling

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SEMICONDUCTORS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); QUANTUM CONFINEMENT; SOLVENTS;

BAND TAIL; CHALCOGENS; EXTENDED STATES; HOPPING; LOCALIZED STATE; NANOSTRUCTURED SEMICONDUCTOR; PHOTOTRANSPORT;

RESONANT TUNNELING;

EID: 0347236491     PISSN: 14544164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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