Semiconducting behaviour in Bi60Sb40 alloy thin films

✍ Scribed by V Damodara Das; M.S. Jagadeesh

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 225 KB
• Volume: 31
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0042-207X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0042-207x(81)80162-5

✦ Synopsis

Electrical resistance measurements of annealed Bi6o Sb4o alloy thin films of various thicknesses vacuum deposited at different substrate temperatures have been carried out from about 80 K to 500 K. The observed variation in resistance with temperature has been explained on the basis of impurity conduction, band to band transition, grain boundary barrier activation of carriers and metallic behaviour in different regions of temperature. The larger band gap values observed compared to bulk are attributed to the quantum size effect and high dislocation density. The decrease in the grain boundary barrier activation energy with increasing thickness and substrate temperature has been explained on the basis of Slater's model.

Vacuum/volume 31/pages 75 to 77.