Auger recombination and junction resistance in lead-tin telluride
- 1 June 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 47 (6), 2565-2568
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.322975
Abstract
The rate of Auger recombination in materials with a many‐valley band structure such as that of PbTe is calculated in this paper. It is found that recombination comes principally from the collision of current carriers in different valleys; the recombination rate can be large at quite low temperatures if the ratio of transverse‐to‐longitudinal effective masses in a valley is far from unity. The calculated rate sets an upper limit to the resistance of a simple p‐n junction in such materials; for material of band gap 0.1. eV, this limit is 6 Ω cm2 at 77 °K.Keywords
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