Modeling the electrical transport in epitaxial undoped and Ni-, Cr-, and W-doped TiO2 anatase thin films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Kneiß, Max ^a   Jenderka, Marcus ^a   Brachwitz, Kerstin ^a   Lorenz, Michael ^a   Grundmann, Marius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; NICKEL; THIN FILMS;

CHI-SQUARE VALUES; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT; LOW-ACTIVATION ENERGY; MOTT VARIABLE-RANGE HOPPING; N-TYPE CONDUCTIVITY; SMALL POLARON HOPPING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMALLY ACTIVATED PROCESS;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84905991023     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4892811     Document Type: Article

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37. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4892811 E-APPLAB-105-086432 for lateral EDX maps, additional AFM images of undoped and Cr-doped films, a Table with detailed VRH parameters according to Eqs. (5)-(7), and the conductivity data and model fits together with their relative residua as single graphs for better visibility of details. The single VRH fits are shown in addition.