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Electrons, holes, and the hall effect in amorphous silicon

Hobbs, David LU orcid (1993) In Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 164-166. p.457-460
Abstract
The double sign anomaly in hydrogenated amorphous silicon, observed by LeComber et.al. [1] in 1977, has remained puzzling ever since. Recently we attacked this problem from two different directions using the equation-of-motion method. Calculations reproduce the double sign anomaly and were rationalised in terms of the behaviour of the spectral function. In a new type of calculation the motion of a ‘wave packet’ was studied in an applied field. Behaviour characteristics of positive and negative effective masses was found in the same ranges of energy for crystalline and a-Si. A perturbation theory is given for reconciling these results.
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0022-3093
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  author       = {{Hobbs, David}},
  issn         = {{0022-3093}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{457--460}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids}},
  title        = {{Electrons, holes, and the hall effect in amorphous silicon}},
  volume       = {{164-166}},
  year         = {{1993}},
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