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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
Quantitative microprofiles of the interstitial oxygen concentration and of the excess carrier lifetime, with a spacial resolution of about 20 μm, were obtained in as-grown dislocationfree CZ-Si crystals employing a double laser absorption technique. It was found that maxima (minima) in oxygen concentration along the crystal growth direction coincide with minima (maxima) of the lifetime. It was further found that the relation between changes in oxygen concentration and in lifetime varies in the radial direction indicating that “as-grown” oxygen precipitates are involved in lifetime limiting processes.