Keywords
dispersive transport
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Abstract
Applicability of the theories describing the discharge in thin-film insulators under open-circuit conditions for dispersive hopping systems is the subject of this paper. It is shown by means of computer simulation that the drift mobility obtained from application of the theories for such systems is underestimated. The computer simulation was carried out for a thin film system in which the charge transport is dominated by hopping of charge carriers among localized states in a narrow band at the Fermi level. The way of interpretation of the discharge under opencircuit conditions in such systems is suggested. The simulation results have also been applied for interpretation of the open-circuit discharge in thin diamond-like carbon films.
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