Electrical Conduction Properties of Sb & Se Co-Doped PbTe Thin Films
Author : L. Kungumadevi and R. SathyamoorthyVolume 7 No.2 July-December 2018 pp 16-19
Abstract
Thenanocrystalline Sb & Se co-doped PbTe thin films were prepared by using an integrated physical-chemical approach by evaporating chemically synthesized Sb& Se co-doped PbTenanopowders on glass substrates. The prepared films were analysed by XRD, SEM, EDAX and their results were discussed in detail. The DC electrical conduction mechanism in Al/SbPbTeSe/Al thin film sandwich system at different temperatures (298–423 K) was studied and was found to be Poole-Frenkel type.
Keywords
Thin Films, Crystal Structure, Electrical Properties, Metal–Semiconductor–Metal, Poole-FrenkelType
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