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Experimental Study of Sweep-Out in N-Type Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

G. Winborne
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
L. XU
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 Nankai University, Tianjin, P.R. China
M. Silver
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
H. M. Branz
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Massuchusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
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Abstract

Experimental results on the temporal response of i/n/i hydrogenated amorphous silicon structures are presented as a function of voltage. The current is initially space charge limited followed by a transition to an emission limited current. The data generally exhibits four subsequent time dependence regimes e.g. :(1) an exponential decay, (2) followed by a t−2 decay, (3) then a t−1 decay and (4) lastly a t(α−1) decay where α<1. The current versus time allows one to derive a density of states. The deduced density of states in the arsenic doped n layers displays a peak at shallow energies followed by an exponential with an energy decay constant of approximately 300°K followed by a flat region and finally followed by a slowly rising density of states. The initial Fermi level is estimated to be within the peak located less than 0.3eV from the mobility edge.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1987

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