Conduction model covering non-degenerate through degenerate polycrystalline semiconductors with non-uniform grain-boundary potential heights based on an energy filtering model

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Kajikawa, Y ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SEMICONDUCTORS; ARRHENIUS PLOTS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; OXIDE MINERALS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; THERMIONIC EMISSION; WIDE BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; ZINC OXIDE;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BOUNDARY POTENTIALS; CONDUCTION MECHANISM; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FERMI-DIRAC DISTRIBUTION; POLY-CRYSTALLINE SEMICONDUCTORS; POTENTIAL BARRIER HEIGHT; VARIABLE RANGE HOPPING;

TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84882258365     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4770452     Document Type: Article

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