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Size and temperature dependence of thermoelectric power and electrical resistivity of vacuum-deposited antimony thin films
V. Damodara Das, N. Soundararajan
Published in Kluwer Academic Publishers
1989
Volume: 24
   
Issue: 12
Pages: 4315 - 4323
Abstract
Thin antimony films of thicknesses in the range 30 to 200 nm have been vacuum deposited on glass substrates at room temperature. After annealing for about an hour at 500 K, the thermoelectric power and electrical resistivity were measured in vacuum as a function of temperature. The thermoelectric power and electrical conductivity data were combined and simultaneously analysed using the effective mean free path theory of size effect in thin films developed by Tellier and Pichard et al. In addition, their temperature dependence was also analysed. It was found that the thermoelectric power is positive and increases with increasing temperature and is inversely proportional to the thickness of the film. The electrical resistivity was found to be temperature dependent with the temperature coefficient of resistivity being positive, and inversely proportional to the thickness of the film. Analysis combining the data from the thermoelectric power and electrical conductivity measurements has led to the determination of mean free path, carrier concentration, effective mass, Fermi energy and the parameter {Mathematical expression} The data were analysed for least squares fitting by local functions, such as the spline functions, which eliminates possible errors in conventional least squares fitting of data using non-local functions valid throughout the range. © 1989 Chapman and Hall Ltd.
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JournalJournal of Materials Science
PublisherKluwer Academic Publishers
ISSN00222461
Open AccessNo
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