Photoconduction amplification and quenching in the Mn4Si7-Si〈Mn〉-Mn4Si7 and Mn4Si7-Si〈Mn〉-M heterostructures
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The photoconduction amplification and quenching in the Mn4Si7-Si〈Mn〉-Mn4Si7 and Mn4Si7-Si〈Mn〉-M heterostructures are studied. It is shown that, at low temperatures, the high-ohmic base region of the HMS-Si〈Mn〉-HMS or HMS-Si〈Mn〉-M structures irradiated by intrinsic light becomes a low-ohmic conducting layer in the transition i-type region of the structures. The mechanism of amplification of the photoconduction in the heterostructures that is caused by collisional ionization in the i-type region is revealed. The sharp quenching of the photoconduction in the temperature range 180–220 K is explained.