Abstract
Polycrystalline specimens of InAs-In2Se3 and InSb-In2Se3 alloys have been prepared by suitable annealing of ingots. Measurements have been made of the room temperature values of Hall effect, conductivity, thermoelectric power and infra-red absorption over the whole of the available range of solid solution, and hence values of carrier density n, mobility μ and optical energy gap Eg determined. It is found that the behaviour is similar to that of the corresponding In2Te3 alloys in that the alloys rich in AIIIBV are n-type and highly degenerate. The observed values of n for the four systems concerned (AIIIBV-A2IIIB3VI) are compared, and possible explanations of the results in terms of solubility of tellurium and selenium in the AIIIBV compounds, or the band structure of the AIIIBV compounds are discussed. The use of thermoelectric power data to give values of the Fermi level is considered, and it is shown that to give consistent results in the composition range where ionized impurity scattering occurs, a scattering relation of the form τ is proportional to E+1/2 must be used. The results suggest that the InAs-In2Se3 system may show a change in conduction band minimum at a composition of low In2Se3 content.
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