title: Electrical transport properties of Ge-doped GaN nanowires.
abstract: The conductivity and charge carrier concentration of single GaN nanowires (NWs) doped with different concentrations of Ge were determined by four-point resistivity and temperature-dependent Seebeck coefficient measurements. We observed high carrier concentrations ranging from 9.1 × 10(18) to 5.5 × 10(19) cm(-3), well above the Mott density of 1.6 × 10(18) cm(-3), and conductivities up to 625 S cm(-1) almost independent of the NW diameter. The weak temperature dependence of the conductivity between 2 and 10 K could be assigned to the formation of an impurity band. For the sample with the highest conductivity metallic behaviour was found, indicated by a positive temperature coefficient of the resistivity. The near band edge emission analyzed by micro-photoluminescence spectroscopy showed only a small increase of the peak width up to 70 meV and no spectral shift for carrier concentrations up to 5.5 × 10(19) cm(-3). The latter was attributed to the simultaneous influence of band filling, band gap renormalization, and strain.
authors.affiliation: I. Physikalisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 16, D-35392 Gießen, Germany.
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