Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 February 2011
We measured the freeze-in temperature of the dangling-bond density in a-Si:H in nine samples with hydrogen concentrations ranging from 7.0 to 31 at.%. The measurements were made by determining the defect density of samples quenched from successively higher temperature. We determined the defect densities with the constant photoconductivity method. The freeze-in temperature is 211±10 °C, and is independent of hydrogen concentration.