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Work function and electrical conductivity of germanium for various crystallographic orientations of the surface

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We have studied the contact potential and electrical conductivity as a function of time for thin n- and p-type germanium samples immediately after their preparation; the measurements were made for different orientations of the surface. These results, and field effect studies, indicate the absence of crystallographic anisotropy in the measured quantities. This is explained by the complicated nature of the changes in the work function of the germanium following etching.

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  1. V. D. Kuznetsov Siberian Physicotechnical Institute, Tomsk State University, USSR

    A. P. Vyatkin & A. A. Shirokov

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 7, pp. 111–116, July, 1972.

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Vyatkin, A.P., Shirokov, A.A. Work function and electrical conductivity of germanium for various crystallographic orientations of the surface. Soviet Physics Journal 15, 1021–1025 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00894691

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