Electronic transport and recombination in amorphous semiconductors at low temperatures
- 19 June 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 62 (25) , 2989-2992
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.62.2989
Abstract
The problem of simultaneous diffusion and recombination of electron-hole pairs, photoexcited in noncrystalline semiconductors at low temperatures, is reduced to a universal mathematical problem whose solution does not depend on the density-of-states function. We derive a general geminate-recombination function which at low light intensities describes the distribution of radiative recombination times. The low-temperature photoconductivity is found to depend only weakly on material parameters and agrees with experiments on hydrogenated amorphous silicon.Keywords
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