Abstract
The basic physical ideas, concepts and pictures that are used for the understanding of the electronic properties of crystalline and amorphous semiconductors and their nanostructures are briefly reviewed. The emphasis is put in particular on the physical ideas that are encountered in the description of the transport and phototransport in crystalline and amorphous chalcogens and chalcogenides, and their recently developed nanostructures.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 587-600 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - 2001 |
Keywords
- Band tails
- Extended states
- Hopping
- Localized states
- Mobility edge
- Percolation
- Quantum confinement
- Resonant tunneling and coulomb blockade
- Tunneling