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Properties of the Interface Between Amorphous Silicon and Nitride

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

C. C. Tsai ,
R. A. Street ,
F. A. Ponce  and
G. B. Anderson
C. C. Tsai
Affiliation:
Xerox PARC, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304.
R. A. Street
Affiliation:
Xerox PARC, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304.
F. A. Ponce
Affiliation:
Xerox PARC, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304.
G. B. Anderson
Affiliation:
Xerox PARC, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304.
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Abstract

The structural, compositional and electronic properties of the a-Si:H/a-SiNx:H interface are reported. High resolution TEM and light/dark ESR studies conclude that the interface has a finite width of the order of 10 Å. In addition, there is a high density of charges residing near the interface. Band bendings occur in both a-Si:H and a-SiNx:H, resulting in few neutral dangling bonds in the a-Si:H/a-SiNx:H multilayer structure. The depletion width in the nitride is of the order of 100 Å. The slow decay of the LESR in multilayers with thin sublayers is attributed to charges trapped in the slow states in the nitride.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 70: Symposium E – Materials Issues in Amorphous-Semiconductor Technology , 1986 , 351
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1986

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