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The temperature dependences of the Hall coefficient and magnetoresistivity of a p-type HgTe/CdHgTe double quantum well with HgTe layers of critical thickness in the temperature range T = 35–300 K under magnetic fields up to 9 T are investigated. The position of the earlier observed reentrant quantum Hall transition from plateau i = 1 to plateau i = 2 is found to be close to the transition field from light to heavy holes with an increase in the magnetic field in the classical Hall effect. It is found that thermally activated light electrons contribute to the Hall effect along with light and heavy holes at T ≥ 35 K. The activation energy of electrons is estimated from the temperature dependence of the electron concentration as 28 meV, which exceeds the calculated value from the lateral maximum of the valence subband to the edge of the lowest conduction subband, probably because of heterostructure asymmetry.
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This work was performed in the scope of the state order according to the theme “Elektron” no. AAAA-A18-118020190098-5 and project no. 18-10-2-6 of the program of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 18-02-00172, using equipment of the Joint Usage Center “Test Center of Nanotechnologies and Promising Materials” of the Mikheev Institute of Metal Physics of the Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Podgornykh, S.M., Yakunin, M.V., Krishtopenko, S.S. et al. On the Thermal Activation of Conductivity Electrons in a p-Type HgTe/CdHgTe Double Quantum Well with HgTe Layers of Critical Width. Semiconductors 53, 919–922 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782619070194
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