Temperature dependence of the fermi energy, carrier concentration, and thermal-emf anisotropy of bismuth

1969 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 807-809
Author(s):  
G. D. Belov ◽  
F. G. Serova
1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (21) ◽  
pp. 2413-2423 ◽  
Author(s):  
On-Ting Woo ◽  
R. J. Balcombe

The differential Shubnikov – de Haas effect has been studied in samples of bismuth containing up to 50 parts per million of lead. The results indicate that the only effect of alloying on the band structure of bismuth is to shift the Fermi energy; the sizes of the various pieces of the Fermi surface are changed, but their shapes are not distorted. The ratio of the change in net carrier concentration to the concentration of lead atoms is found to be only 0.4, which is anomalously low, compared with values of about 1.0 found for dilute alloys of other metals in bismuth.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Tanmay Maity

<p>Gadolinium nitride (GdN) and samarium nitride (SmN) have been widely studied to understand their ferromagnetic ordering and electronic structure, and for their promise in spintronics applications. This thesis presents experimental magnetotransport studies of GdN and SmN films in which experimental results have been compared with the existing band structure calculation. Three GdN films have been prepared in different conditions, among them two films are epitaxial quality and one film is polycrystalline in nature, and two films of SmN were also studied. Their magnetic properties were probed by SQUID magnetometry and they are found to be ferromagnetic. The transition temperature differs from sample to sample and this behaviour has been attributed to the presence of magnetic polarons that nucleate around nitrogen vacancies and give rise to an inhomogeneous ferromagnetic state.  The charge transport results have been discussed for all GdN and SmN films. A full set of charge/heat transport results are obtained on only one epitaxial GdN. The difference of resistivity among these samples is noticeable. The Hall effect results show the presence of different carrier concentration with at most only weak temperature dependence. We also have noticed the presence of anomalous Hall effect in the paramagnetic region for a lower-concentration epitaxial GdN.  The thermopower in both GdN and SmN was measured to provide further insight into the material’s electronic properties. In this thesis we present the first experimental investigation of the thermopower of epitaxial gadolinium nitride and samarium nitride films, measured using an experimental set-up designed for measuring the temperature dependent thermopower of thin films. Our result shows a negative thermopower for both GdN and SmN films and simple, though strong temperature dependence. At low temperatures we observe a peak near the ferromagnetic transition temperature in GdN. The results are interpreted in terms of the diffusion thermopower.  Overall the results suggest that the nitrogen vacancy concentration controls the carrier concentration and plays a significant role towards the transport properties. We conclude that all films are either heavily, moderately or weakly doped semiconductors with a metallic characteristic.</p>


1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (06n07) ◽  
pp. 225-230
Author(s):  
Manas Sardar

With the assumption of complete incoherence of single electron transport along the c-axis, it is argued that it takes place by coherent hopping of singlet pairs that are fermionic in character. This will lead to a correction to the 1/Tc-axis resistivity calculated by Anderson et al.6 The c-axis resistivity coming from this extra channel of transport is shown to have the same temperature dependence as the inplane resistivity (linear in T) and mildly sensitive to the inplane carrier concentration through the modification of the density of states at the fermi surface. It is argued that the resistivity due to transport in this extra channel will be very sensitive to the c-axis disorder and show an upturn at low temperatures due to c-axis disorder and scattering by acoustic phonons.


1993 ◽  
Vol 206 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 291-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Sun ◽  
G. Strasser ◽  
E. Gornik ◽  
W. Seidenbusch ◽  
W. Rauch

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