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Variable-range hopping and Coulomb gap in indium phosphide

G Biskupski, H Dubois and A Briggs

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The DC magnetoresistivity measurements of a compensated and barely insulating indium phosphide sample yield results showing variable-range hopping (VRH) in the temperature range 0.09 K<T<4.2 K for magnetic fields up to 11 T. Analysis of the conductivity data in terms of the relation sigma = sigma 0 exp(-(T0/T)3) indicates that s=0.25 for B<6 T, i.e. near the metal-insulator transition, while for larger magnetic fields (B>6T) s=0.5. This suggests that, in the vicinity of the metal-insulator transition, the VRH is in agreement with Mott's predictions (1968) assuming a constant density of states N(EF) at the Fermi level whereas, far from the metal-insulator transition, a Coulomb gap is opening, in agreement with the predictions of Shklovskii and Efros (1984).


PACS

72.20.My Galvanomagnetic and other magnetotransport effects

72.80.Ey III-V and II-VI semiconductors

71.30.+h Metal-insulator transitions and other electronic transitions

Subjects

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Semiconductors

Dates

Issue 2 (20 January 1988)



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