Abstract
We investigate the carrier transport mechanism in Br-doped SnSe2 single crystals by characterizing electrical properties in the high-temperature (T) region (300–500 K). In-plane electrical resistivity decreases with the introduction of Br dopant in layered SnSe2 single crystals owing to the increase of the electron carrier concentration (ne), indicating Br is an efficient electron donor for SnSe2. From the T dependence of ne, the thermally activated behavior disappears when ne exceeds approximately 1018 cm−3, suggesting degenerate conduction easily occurs by electron doping from 300 to 500 K. The Hall carrier mobility (μH) depends on T according to the relation μH ~ T−γ, and γ is significantly reduced from 1.68 to 0.52 by Br doping. This strongly evidences that the homopolar optical mode phonon, as the main scatterer for carrier transport at high T, is effectively quenched through the carrier doping.
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