Two-Dimensional Impurity States in an n-Type Inversion Layer of Silicon

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Shallow impurity states associated with the electric subband in the n-type surface inversion layers have clearly been observed on the Si (100) surface.Measurements of the conductivity and the transconductance have been made at temperatures from 4.2 to 300 K, especially at low gate voltages near the threshold for the surface inversion, whose values are given in terms of effective mobility as well as field effect mobility. When the surfacecarrier density is less than 5×10 10 cm −2 , the surface conductance varies as exp (−ε a /kT) and the activation energy ε a has been determined to be 1.2 meV. In this case, the peak of the transconductance, the differential conductance with respect to the gate voltage, disappears at 12 K, which agrees with the activation energy. When the surfacecarrier density is more than 1×10 11 cm −2 , the effective mobility is independent of temperature below 20 K and the electron statistics might be degenerate.

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