Photomodulated electron-spin resonance in amorphous silicon

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Hattori, K [1 ]
Ota, Y [1 ]
Sato, K [1 ]
Okamoto, H [1 ]
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[1] Osaka Univ, Grad Sch Engn Sci, Dept Phys Sci, Osaka 5608531, Japan
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10.1063/1.368742
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O59 [应用物理学];
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Electron-spin resonance (ESR) under a modulated photoexcitation has been measured for investigating the nonequilibrium carriers trapped at band-tail states in hydrogenated amorphous silicon. The photomodulation technique is successfully applied for detecting the weak Si-29 hyperfine structures involved in the light-induced ESR spectrum. Access to the recombination kinetics fur band-tail carriers is obtained by the frequency-domain study of modulated ESR signal. Physical insights which led from these measurements are discussed quantitatively. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics. [S0021-8979(98)02121-5].
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