Rebeca Realyvazquez-Guevara

Ms. Rebeca Realyvazquez-Guevara


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Academic Career Length

10Years (2017-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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14 March 2017 in Materials
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RRRebeca Realyvazquez-Guevara
Rebeca Realyvazquez-Guevara
FRFrancisco J. Rivera-Gómez
Francisco J. Rivera-Gómez
AFAlejandro Faudoa
Alejandro Faudoa
MBMaría E. Botello-Zubiate
María E. Botello-Zubiate
RSRenee Joselin Sáenz-Hernández
Renee Joselin Sáenz-Hernández
JMJosé Andrés Matutes-Aquino
José Andrés Matutes-Aquino
The effect of native defects originated by a non-stoichiometric variation of composition in CoSb3 on I-V curves and Hall effect was investigated. Hysteretic and a non-linear behavior of the I-V curves at cryogenic temperatures were observed; the non-linear behavior originated from the Poole-Frenkel effect, a field-dependent ionization mechanism that lowers Coulomb barriers and increases emission of charge carriers, and the hysteresis was attributed to the drastic decrease of specific heat which produces Joule heating at cryogenic temperatures. CoSb3 is a narrow gap semiconductor and slight variation in the synthesis process can lead to either n- or p-type conduction. The Sb-deficient CoSb3 presented an n-type conduction. Using a single parabolic model and assuming only acoustic-phonon scattering the charge transport properties were calculated at 300 K. From this model, a carrier concentration of 1.18 × 1018 cm−3 and a Hall factor of 1.18 were calculated. The low mobility of charge carriers, 19.11 cm2/V·s, and the high effective mass of the electrons, 0.66 m0, caused a high resistivity value of 2.75 × 10−3 Ω·m. The calculated Lorenz factor was 1.50 × 10−8 V2/K2, which represents a decrease of 38% over the degenerate limit value (2.44 × 10−8 V2/K2).