DC and AC conductivity of amorphous CuInTe<inf>2</inf> thin films

DC and ac conductivity studies were made on a-CuInTe2 thin films deposited onto substrates held at liquid nitrogen temperatures. The dc results may be understood in terms of three modes of current paths, viz., hopping of carriers near the valence band tail, near an acceptor induced defect state and near the Fermi level at appropriate temperature ranges. A reasonable fit to the ac loss data could be made using the extended pair approximation due to Summerfield.