Band tail hopping conduction mechanism in highly conductive amorphous carbon nitride thin films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 25, 2004, Pages 6176-6178

  Lazar, G ^a   Zellama, K ^b   Clin, M ^b   Godet, C ^c  

^a VASILE ALECSANDRI UNIVERSITY OF BACAU   (Romania)

^b Universite de Picardie Jules Verne   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES INTERFACES ET DES COUCHES MINCES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FERMI LEVEL; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THIN FILMS;

ARRHENIUS CONDUCTION; BAND TAIL HOPPING MECHANISM; DENSITY OF STATES (DOS); VARIABLE RANGE HOPPING (VRH);

CARBON NITRIDE;

EID: 20644465195     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1839649     Document Type: Article

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