Oscillations of thermoelectric parameters of PbTe:Bi nanofilms on glass-ceramic

Authors D.M. Freik1 , I.K. Yurchyshyn1, M.O. Halushchak2 , Ya.S. Yavorsky1, Yu.V. Lysiuk1
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1 Physics and chemistry institute, physics and chemistry of solid department, at PreCarpathian Vasyl Stefanyk National University 57, Shevchenko str., 76018, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

2 Ivano-Frankivsk National University of Oil and Gas 15, Carpathian str, 76018, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

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Issue Volume 4, Year 2012, Number 2
Dates Received 23 February 2012; revised manuscript received 25 April 2012; published online 08 May 2012
Citation D.M. Freik, I.K. Yurchyshyn, M.O. Halushchak, et al., J. Nano-Electron. Phys. 4 No 2, 02019 (2012)
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PACS Number(s) 5.50.Lw, 73.63.Hs, 73.61.Ey
Keywords Lead telluride, Bismuth (9) , Glass-ceramic, Nanostructures (8) , Quantum-size effects.
Annotation There were investigated the thickness (d) dependences of thermoelectric (TE) parameters (concentration n, mobility , conductivity , Seebeck coefficient S, and thermoelectric power S2) for bismuth-doped n-PbTe nanostructures containing 2 at. % Bi grown from the vapor phase on glass-ceramic. Nonmonotonous change of d-dependences for the studied parameters was explained by the quantization of the energy spectrum of electron gas in quantum well of the glass-ceramic/n-PbTe:Bi structure. On the basis of this assumption for these structures the theoretical d-dependences of the corresponding TE parameters were built and compared with the experimental dependences.

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