Cyclotron resonance studies on bulk and two-dimensional conduction electrons in InSe
Abstract
Cyclotron resonance is reported for both bulk electrons and electrons bound to charged defect planes in the layer compound InSe. At temperatures below 20 K all carriers present are bound to defect planes and behave as two-dimensional accumulation layers. At higher temperatures the electrons are excited into bulk regions between the defects, and show three-dimensional, bulk behaviour. The conduction band is shown to exhibit an "anomalous anisotropy" with m∥ = 0.08 m0 and m⊥ = 0.14 m0. The bound, two-dimensional carriers exhibit a strong non-parabolicity, and show a band edge mass m⊥ = 0.13 which is considerably lower than the bulk value possibly due to a reduction in the polaron constant in the degenerate electron gas.
- Publication:
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Solid State Communications
- Pub Date:
- October 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0038-1098(82)90874-2
- Bibcode:
- 1982SSCom..44..379K