Hopping conduction in Mn ion-implanted GaAs nanowires.

Paschoal, Waldomiro; Kumar, Sandeep; Borschel, Christian; Wu, Phillip; Canali, Carlo M; Ronning, Carsten; Samuelson, Lars; Pettersson, Håkan · Nano Lett · 2012

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We report on temperature-dependent charge transport in heavily doped Mn(+)-implanted GaAs nanowires. The results clearly demonstrate that the transport is governed by temperature-dependent hopping processes, with a crossover between nearest neighbor hopping and Mott variable range hopping at about 180 K. From detailed analysis, we have extracted characteristic hopping energies and corresponding hopping lengths. At low temperatures, a strongly nonlinear conductivity is observed which reflects a modified hopping process driven by the high electric field at large bias.

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