EFFECT OF PREEXPONENTIAL FACTORS ON TEMPERATURE BEHAVIOR OF VRH CONDUCTIVITY

被引:9
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AGRINSKAYA, NV
KOZUB, VI
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[1] A.F.Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St.-Petersburg
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10.1016/0038-1098(94)90001-9
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O469 [凝聚态物理学];
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070205 ;
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An effect of preexponentials on variable range hopping (VRH) conductivity near the crossover from Mott law to Efros-Shklovskii (ES) law is analyzed. These factors rho(0,1)(T) are shown to affect significantly the crossover details and may even imitate the crossover. As demonstrated for doped CdTe crystals at 0.4 - 4K an account for rho(0)(T) lifts the crossover-like behavior for some samples actually exhibiting purely Mott-type VRH while for higher resistivity samples trends to ES behavior are still observed. A proper account for the preexponentials also leads to a drastic reestimate of localization length a and dielectric constant kappa. The conclusions are also evidenced by positive magnetoresistance measurements.
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