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Studies of tunneling currents in semiconductor junctions have been a useful method of measuring phonon energies in many semiconductors. A review will be given of (1) junction fabrication and measurement of impurity concentrations in tunnel junctions, (2) the current-voltage characteristic and the parameters which control the tunnel current, (3) the techniques of measuring phonon energies in various semiconductors, and (4) the effects of phonons upon the tunnel current in indirect energy gap semiconductors. In addition, the anomalous changes observed in the diode conductance near zero bias will be described.
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Logan, R.A. (1969). Phonon-Assisted Semiconductor Tunneling. In: Burstein, E., Lundqvist, S. (eds) Tunneling Phenomena in Solids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1752-4_11
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