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Magnetic Resonance Probes Of Band Tail States And Defects In Tetrahedrally Coordinated Amorphous Semiconductors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

P. C. Taylor
P. C. Taylor*
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Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
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Abstract

Recent electron spin resonance (ESR) results relating to (1) recombination processes for optically excited electrons and holes in tetrahedrally coordinated amorphous semiconductors and (2) kinetics of metastable defects (dangling bonds associated with the Staebler-Wronski effect) in hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H). With regard to recombination processes, ESR measurements have been performed over a wide range of excitation intensities (nW/cm2 to W/cm2) on hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) and hydrogenated amorphous germanium (a-Ge:H). The kinetics can be studied down to carrier densities as low as 1014 cm-3. The longtime decay curves show that at large carrier separation (1) the random distribution of optically excited electrons and holes is subject to the condition of charge neutrality, and (2) the decays are universal and independent of the densities of localized, band-tail states. With regard to the metastable defects in a-Si:H, the kinetics of the production and thermal annealing of silicon dangling bonds have been measured at temperatures between 25 and 480 K using ESR. Below about 150 K the measurement of the dangling bonds is masked by long-lived, band tail carriers that accumulate with time. The production rate for silicon dangling bonds decreases with decreasing temperature and is nearly temperature independent below approximately 100 K. Defects created by 10 hours of irradiation below 100 K anneal almost completely at 300 K. In a- Ge:H, the first measurements of optically induced, metastable germanium dangling bonds have been made.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 715: Symposium A – Amorphous and Heterogeneous Silicon-Based Films-2002 , 2002 , A2.3
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

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