Magnetotransport and conductivity mechanisms in Cu2ZnSnxGe1−xS4 single crystals
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LÄHDERANTA, Erkki, HAJDEU-CHICAROS, Elena, GUK, Maxim, SHAKHOV, Mikhail, ZAKHARCHUK, Ivan A., BODNAR, Ivan V., ARUSHANOV, Ernest, LISUNOV, Konstantin. Magnetotransport and conductivity mechanisms in Cu2ZnSnxGe1−xS4 single crystals. In: Scientific Reports, 2018, vol. 8, p. 0. ISSN 2045-2322. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35497-y
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Volumul 8 / 2018 / ISSN 2045-2322

Magnetotransport and conductivity mechanisms in Cu2ZnSnxGe1−xS4 single crystals

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35497-y

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Lähderanta Erkki1, Hajdeu-Chicaros Elena12, Guk Maxim12, Shakhov Mikhail13, Zakharchuk Ivan A.1, Bodnar Ivan V.4, Arushanov Ernest2, Lisunov Konstantin12
 
1 Lappeenranta University of Technology,
2 Institute of Applied Physics,
3 Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, RAS,
4 Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
 
 
Disponibil în IBN: 13 decembrie 2018


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Resistivity, ρ(T), and magnetoresistance (MR) are investigated in the Cu2ZnSnxGe1−xS4 single crystals, obtained by the chemical vapor transport method, between x = 0–0.70, in the temperature range of T ~ 50–300 K in pulsed magnetic field of B up to 20 T. The Mott variable-range hopping (VRH) conductivity is observed within broad temperature intervals, lying inside that of T ~ 80–180 K for different x. The nearest-neighbor hopping conductivity and the charge transfer, connected to activation of holes into the delocalized states of the acceptor band, are identified above and below the Mott VRH conduction domain, respectively. The microscopic electronic parameters, including width of the acceptor band, the localization radius and the density of the localized states at the Fermi level, as well as the acceptor concentration and the critical concentration of the metal-insulator transition, are obtained with the analysis of the ρ(T) and MR data. All the parameters above exhibit extremums near x = 0.13, which are attributable mainly to the transition from the stannite crystal structure at x = 0 to the kesterite-like structure near x = 0.13. The detailed analysis of the activation energy in the low-temperature interval permitted estimations of contributions from different crystal phases of the border compounds into the alloy structure at different compositions.