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Trapping-to-Percolation Transition in the Hopping Diffusion of Substitutionally Disordered Solids with a Binary Energy Distribution
Physical Review B (Condensed Matter)
  • Paul Ernest Parris, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • B. D. Bookout
Abstract

We consider charge carriers that undergo nearest-neighbor hopping among the sites of a binary random lattice, each site of which is associated with one of two possible energies E1 or E2. A general and recently observed feature of this problem not predicted by previous treatments of disordered hopping models is a crossover between trap-limited conduction and percolation. We introduce new energy-projected equations of motion whose solutions reveal the deep conductivity minimum associated with this phenomenon, and compare the results predicted to numerical simulations.

Department(s)
Physics
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
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© 1993 American Physical Society (APS), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
1-1-1993
Publication Date
01 Jan 1993
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Citation Information
Paul Ernest Parris and B. D. Bookout. "Trapping-to-Percolation Transition in the Hopping Diffusion of Substitutionally Disordered Solids with a Binary Energy Distribution" Physical Review B (Condensed Matter) Vol. 47 Iss. 1 (1993) p. 562 - 565 ISSN: 0163-1829
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/paul-parris/74/