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Vanadium-induced deep impurity level in Pb1−xSnxTe

✍ Scribed by E.P. Skipetrov; A.N. Golovanov; E.A. Zvereva; E.I. Slyn’ko; V.E. Slyn’ko


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
234 KB
Volume
404
Category
Article
ISSN
0921-4526

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✦ Synopsis


The galvanomagnetic properties (T= 4.2-300 K, B r 0.08 T) of Pb 1 À x À y Sn x V y Te alloys (x= 0.06-0.26, y= 0.002-0.066) have been investigated. Low temperature activation range of the impurity conductivity on the temperature dependencies of resistivity r and of the Hall coefficient R H in the heavily doped samples has been revealed and attributed to the appearance of vanadium-induced deep level in the gap of the alloys. It was found that in insulating phase alloys possess a high photosensitivity to IR excitation at temperatures up to T c E 40 K. In the alloy with xE 0.2 the metal-insulator transition due to the shift of the Fermi level from the valence band to the gap with the increase of the vanadium and tin content and the pinning of the Fermi level by vanadium level were observed. The diagram of electronic structure reconstruction for Pb 1 À x À y Sn x V y Te alloys was proposed.


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