ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT AND CONTACT PROPERTIES OF LOW RESISTIVITY <i>n</i>-TYPE ZINC SULFIDE CRYSTALS

M. Aven, Carver Mead

Applied Physics Letters · 1965 · 85 citations · 10 references

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Abstract

This Letter describes some electrical contact and&#13;\ntransport properties of ZnS single crystals having&#13;\nroom-temperature resistivities in the range of 1 to&#13;\n10 ohm-cm. Previous electrical transport measurements&#13;\non ZnS have been done mainly at high temperatures&#13;\nor under photoexcitation. Electrical&#13;\ncontacts to ZnS which display ohmic characteristics&#13;\nat room temperature have been described by Alfrey&#13;\nand Cooke. A serious limitation to a more extensive&#13;\ninvestigation of the electrical properties of ZnS&#13;\nhas been the difficulty in providing ZnS crystals&#13;\nwith contacts which would stay ohmic at low temperatures.&#13;\nIt has also been difficult to dope ZnS&#13;\nn-type without simultaneously introducing large&#13;\nconcentrations of native acceptor defects.

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