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Theoretical understanding of metal-insulator transitions elucidates roughly 3 classes of metal-insulator transitions. Doping a material can change its internal electronic structure, giving rise to or eliminating Band Gaps . Materials in which a band gap prohibits electronic conductivity are call Band-gap Insulators . Electron-electron interaction can also lead to the opening of an Interaction-induced Gap , the so-called Mott-Hubbard Gap . Disorder in the material composition can lead to Anderson Localization which prohibits Conductivity . This is a disorder-induced metal-insulator transition even without any band gap. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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