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Observation of Meyer-Neldel rule in amorphous filmsof Ge1–x Se2Pbx
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 January 2009
Abstract
Electrical conductivity was performed on amorphous thin films of Ge1–x Se2Pbx (with x = 0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 and 0.8) as a function of temperature in the range 300–450 K. The experimental results indicate that the conduction is through thermally activated process having two conduction mechanisms. In the first region at high-temperatures range, the values of $\sigma _{o}$ suggest that the dominant conduction of charge carriers changes from the extended states to the localized states in the band tails at composition x = 0.8. The experimental results have also been analyzed using Meyer-Neldel Rule. The other one appears in the low temperatures region and the conductivity has been analyzed using Mott's variable range hopping conduction. Mott's parameters were calculated for Ge1–x Se2Pbx films.
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