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Impurity States

Impurity States is a quantum mechanical state arising within the band structure of a semiconductor, distinguished by its localization at dopant or foreign atoms and responsible for introducing discrete energy levels within the band gap.

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Motion of Electrons and Holes in Perturbed Periodic Fields

J. M. Luttinger, W. Kohn · Physical Review · 1955 · 3.1K citations

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Impurity Conduction at Low Concentrations

Allen H. Miller, Elihu Abrahams · Physical Review · 1960 · 2.6K citations

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Increasing the Efficiency of Ideal Solar Cells by Photon Induced Transitions at Intermediate Levels

A. Ĺuque · Physical Review Letters · 1997 · 2.3K citations

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Ionicity of the Chemical Bond in Crystals

J. C. Phillips · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1970 · 1.9K citations

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<i>Introduction to Solid State Physics</i>

C. Kittel, R. W. Hellwarth · Physics Today · 1957 · 1.6K citations

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  1. CD
    C.A. Duque

    Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia

    30 publications · 962 citations

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  2. AZ
    Alex Zunger

    National Laboratory of the Rockies, United States

    19 publications · 1.9K citations

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  3. RZ
    R. Zeller

    Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

    15 publications · 1.1K citations

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  4. PS
    P. Schlottmann

    Florida State University, United States

    18 publications · 653 citations

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  5. JJ
    Joshua Jortner

    Tel Aviv University, Israel

    17 publications · 678 citations

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  1. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    37 h-index

    230 publications

    15K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    33 h-index

    202 publications

    7.8K citations

  3. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    32 h-index

    143 publications

    12K citations

  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    31 h-index

    196 publications

    9.2K citations

  5. National Laboratory of the Rockies

    Golden, United States

    28 h-index

    103 publications

    9.4K citations

  6. Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Los Alamos, United States

    28 h-index

    88 publications

    10.2K citations

  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    27 h-index

    96 publications

    8.4K citations

  8. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    27 h-index

    96 publications

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  1. Physical review. B, Condensed matter

    PRB · 449 publications · 26.1K citations

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  2. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 233 publications · 21.4K citations

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  3. Physical Review

    159 publications · 22.8K citations

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  4. Physical Review B

    PRB · 244 publications · 10.6K citations

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  5. Journal of Applied Physics

    203 publications · 9.9K citations

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