Degradation rate and saturation defect density in a-Si:H as a function of temperature and light intensity

1 January 1991

proceedings article
Published by AIP Publishing in AIP Conference Proceedings

Vol. 234 (1) , 138-145
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.41021

Abstract

Defect density as a function of light exposure time and the value of the saturation defect density in undoped hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a‐Si:H) have been measured. We varied conditions of temperature and light intensity to test the predictions of both a stretched exponential description of the kinetics and the steady‐state solution to the underlying rate equation. A stretched exponential fits the time dependence, with a stretching parameter that increases and a time constant that decreases with temperature over the range 270 to 360 K. The saturation density of light‐induced defects is both temperature and intensity dependent in the range 420–480 K for generation rates 6×1020 to 2×1022 cm−3 sec−1. The observed decrease in saturation density with increasing temperature and increase in saturation density with increasing intensity are consistent with the model predictions.

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