High mobility <i>n</i>-type charge carriers in large single crystals of anatase (TiO2)

Abstract

Resistivity, thermopower, and Hall-effect measurements on large single crystals of the anatase form of TiO2 all indicate high mobility n-type carriers that are produced by thermal excitation from a density of ∼1018 cm−3 putatively present shallow donor states. The decrease of the mobility with increasing temperature is consistent with the scattering of carriers by the optical phonons of TiO2.