Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1971

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

A study was made of the photoconductivity transients in zinc-doped polycrystalline stannic oxide. The current rises and decays during and following illumination were observed for varying time, intensity, and wavelength of illumination, and for different ambient temperatures. This experimental data was analyzed assuming that the photoconductivity transients are surface controlled processes involving the chemisorption and desorption of oxygen. Models used to describe the observed data were based on either an Elovich-type phenomenological rate equation or a mechanistic physical description of the processes involved. These models, using the observed data, were then compared for ranges of validity and self-consistency.

Extent

127 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1971.|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1971.

Identifier

FADT13471

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