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Аннотация:We synthesize a scandium-doped PbTe single-crystal ingot and investigate the phase and the
elemental composition as well as galvanomagnetic properties of Pb1-yScyTe alloys in weak
magnetic fields (4.2K<T<300 K, B<0.07 T) upon varying the scandium content (y<0.02). We
find that all investigated samples are single-phase and n-type. The distribution of scandium
impurities along the axis of the ingot is estimated to be exponential. An increase of scandium impurity content leads to a monotonous growth of the free electron concentration by four orders of magnitude (approximately from 10^16 cm-3 to 10^20 cm-3). In heavily doped alloys (y>0.01), the free electron concentration at the liquid-helium temperature tends to saturation, indicating the pinning of the Fermi energy by the scandium resonant impurity level located on the background of the conduction band. Using the two-band Kane and six-band Dimmock dispersion relations for IV-VI semiconductors, dependences of the Fermi energy measured from the bottom of the conduction band Ec on the scandium impurity content are calculated and the energy of the resonant scandium level is estimated to be E_Sc=E_c+280 meV. Diagrams of electronic structure
rearrangement of Pb1-yScyTe alloys upon doping are proposed.