Activated conduction in amorphous Cr-SiOx thin films
- 1 April 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Philosophical Magazine Part B
- Vol. 65 (4) , 651-656
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13642819208204899
Abstract
The electrical conductivity of reactively sputtered amorphous Cr-SOx thin films with Cr-to-Si ratio of 28 to 72 and oxygen concentrations co above the critical concentration ccr O of the metal-insulator transition has been measured in the temperature range 50 mK-300 K. The low-temperature conductivity obeys the law σ(T)=σ0 exp[-T 0/T)α with α changing from 1/4 to 1/2 to 1 with decreasing temperature. The corresponding temperature regions and conductivity parameters depend systematically on c o The results are related to a composition-dependent density N(E) of states near EF, which shows with increasing energy a hard Coulomb gap (α = 1), a soft Coulomb gap (α=1/2) and a nearly constant value (α=1/4).Keywords
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