Crystalline Imperfections andNoise
- 1 September 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 115 (5) , 1122-1125
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.115.1122
Abstract
The noise of single-crystal silicon and germanium has been examined as a function of naturally occurring imperfection densities, dislocations produced by plastic deformation, and imperfections resulting from fast-neutron irradiation. In all cases the noise power decreases with increasing crystalline imperfection. The results may be quantitatively explained by assuming that noise is proportional to the square of the minority carrier lifetime and accounting for the decrease in lifetime due to imperfections.
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