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The hopping transport of charge carries in 3-dimensional disordered semiconductors is analyzed in this work. It is assumed that the density of localized states is a decreasing function of energy and contribution of thermoactivated jumps…
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The diffusion of energy that is locally deposited into two-dimensional electron gases by Joule heating generates transverse voltages across devices with broken symmetry. For mesoscopic structures characterized by device dimensions…