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We use the data on the pressure (up to P=1.5 GPa) and field (up to H=17 kOe) dependence of the Hall coefficient and the resistivity at 77.6 and 300 K in p-CdSnAs2〈Cu〉 to calculate the effective kinetic characteristics of the charge carriers, the density and mobility of the conduction electrons and the holes of the deep acceptor and valence bands, in an interval of excess-acceptor densities N ext ranging from 1010–1017 cm−3. We establish that in a heavily doped semiconductor with a deep impurity band at the tail of the density of states of the intrinsic band, with unequal donor and acceptor densities, a a heavily doped and fully compensated semiconductor state is realized under hydrostatic compression. The threshold value of the pressure that initiates the transition into such a state, P c, depends on the extent to which the impurity band is populated. In p-CdSnAs2〈Cu〉 at N ext=N A, where N A is the density of deep acceptors, and T⩽77.6 K the value of P c amounts to 10−4 GPa. As the population of the deep acceptor band grows, P c increases and in the limit becomes infinite. We discuss the special features of the electrophysical properties of p-CdSnAs2〈Cu〉 arising from the absence of an energy gap between the states of the conduction band and those of the deep acceptor band.
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Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 111, 562–574 (February 1997)
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Daunov, M.I., Kamilov, I.K. & Magomedov, A.B. Realization of a heavily doped and fully compensated semiconductor state in a crystalline semiconductor with a deep impurity band. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 84, 309–316 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.558118
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