Simple Theory for Conductivity and Hall Mobility in Disordered Systems
- 24 March 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 44 (12) , 828-831
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.44.828
Abstract
This Letter shows how the well-known expressions for conductivity and Hall mobility in crystalline semiconductors can be extended to disordered systems with a simple reinterpretation of the concepts of electronic mass, velocity, and lifetime based on the density matrix approach.Keywords
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