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TY - JOUR
T1 - High-field transport in amorphous carbon and carbon nitride films
AU - Kumar, Sushil
AU - Godet, C.
AU - Goudovskikh, A.
AU - Kleider, J.P.
AU - Adamopoulos, George
AU - Chu, V.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - The temperature and electric field dependence of the current density in hydrogenated amorphous carbon and carbon nitride sandwich devices show a T-1/4 dependence of the ohmic conductivity sigma = sigma(00) - exp[-(T-0/T)(1/4)] characteristic of 3D hopping, a linear correlation between the apparent Lnsigma(00)(F) and T-0(F) values, and a F/T-3/2 scaling of sigma(F, T). The F-2 dependence of Lnsigma(F, T) at intermediate fields, provides similar values of the decay length gamma(-1) of localized 71 state wavefunctions in a-CNx:H (2.4 nm) and a-C:H (2.8 nm) films. The larger conductivity in nitrogen-rich alloys is attributed to a combined effect of N-induced increase in the pi-state density and ordering of the sp(2) phase.
AB - The temperature and electric field dependence of the current density in hydrogenated amorphous carbon and carbon nitride sandwich devices show a T-1/4 dependence of the ohmic conductivity sigma = sigma(00) - exp[-(T-0/T)(1/4)] characteristic of 3D hopping, a linear correlation between the apparent Lnsigma(00)(F) and T-0(F) values, and a F/T-3/2 scaling of sigma(F, T). The F-2 dependence of Lnsigma(F, T) at intermediate fields, provides similar values of the decay length gamma(-1) of localized 71 state wavefunctions in a-CNx:H (2.4 nm) and a-C:H (2.8 nm) films. The larger conductivity in nitrogen-rich alloys is attributed to a combined effect of N-induced increase in the pi-state density and ordering of the sp(2) phase.
KW - EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE
KW - ELECTRONIC-PROPERTIES
KW - DISORDERED SYSTEMS
KW - HOPPING CONDUCTION
U2 - 10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2004.02.071
DO - 10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2004.02.071
M3 - Journal article
VL - 338
SP - 349
EP - 352
JO - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
JF - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
SN - 0022-3093
ER -