Insulator-to-metal transition in selenium-hyperdoped silicon: Observation and origin

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Ertekin, Elif ^a,c   Winkler, Mark T ^a   Recht, Daniel ^b   Said, Aurore J ^b   Aziz, Michael J ^b   Buonassisi, Tonio ^a   Grossman, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CONCENTRATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; INSULATOR-TO-METAL TRANSITIONS; METALLICITIES; MOTT TRANSITIONS; OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; QUANTUM MONTE CARLO CALCULATIONS;

DEFECT DENSITY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; SELENIUM; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION;

EID: 84855673920     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.026401     Document Type: Article

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