Jahn-Teller assisted polaronic hole hopping as a charge transport mechanism in CuO nanograins

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Younas, M ^a   Nadeem, M ^a   Idrees, M ^a,b   Akhtar, M J ^a  

^a PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b Lahore Campus   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC SMALL POLARON; CHARGE TRANSPORT MECHANISMS; ELECTRIC TRANSPORT; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; JAHN-TELLER; JAHN-TELLER POLARONS; LOCALIZED CHARGE; NANO GRAINS; POLARONIC HOLES; RANDOM POTENTIALS; THERMAL ACTIVATION; VARIABLE RANGE HOPPING;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; POLARONS; SOL-GELS;

JAHN-TELLER EFFECT;

EID: 84859789497     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3702465     Document Type: Article

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