Mercury-doped germanium has been prepared by a modified zone leveling technique. Mercury as an impurity produces p-type germanium with two energy levels. Hall measurements yield values of 0.087 and 0.23 eV for the lower and upper levels, respectively. Activation energies determined from the long wave-length threshold of the photoconductive response are in good agreement with these values.
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