Long-range disorder and metastability in amorphous silicon

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Quicker, D [1 ]
West, PW [1 ]
Kakalios, J [1 ]
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[1] Univ Minnesota, Sch Phys & Astron, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
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10.1016/S0022-3093(99)00741-3
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TQ174 [陶瓷工业]; TB3 [工程材料学];
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0805 ; 080502 ;
摘要
Possible changes in the long-range disorder in hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) in association with light-induced defect creation (the Staebler-Wronski effect) have been investigated by combining measurements of the thermopower and conductivity activation energy differences with that of the conductance 1/f noise. There is no observed change in the long-ranged disorder after twenty hours exposure to heat-filtered white light for a series of n-type-doped a-Si:H films. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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