Abstract
Abstract After a brief account of inversion layers, the independent-particle mobility-edge and percolation models are described and their predictions for the inversion layer system outlined. A review of the observed behaviour of the Hall effect and the conductivity shows that neither is normally consistent with either model. The results show that there is a region in which essentially all the carriers participate in conduction with a mobility that is activated. The results are consistent, however, with the electron-liquid model according to which correlation is so dominant that the carriers become localized in the Wigner sense and flow past the disorder like a viscous liquid. It is suggested that correlation must always become dominant sufficiently close to any metal-insulator transition.
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Inversion (geology)Condensed matter physicsConductivityPercolation (cognitive psychology)Insulator (electricity)Conduction bandElectronHall effectThermal conductionPhysicsMaterials scienceElectrical resistivity and conductivityGeologyQuantum mechanicsPsychologyComposite material
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- 1978
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- 38
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- 5
- Pages
- 535-548
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C. J. Adkins
(1978).
VII. The Hall effect in inversion layers.
Philosophical Magazine B
, 38
(5)
, 535-548.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13642817808246402
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- 10.1080/13642817808246402