Study of light-induced metastable defects by means of temperature-modulated space-charge-limited currents
- 1 July 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Philosophical Magazine Part B
- Vol. 52 (1) , L25-L30
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13642818508243159
Abstract
The density of states (DOS) has been measured at room temperature for undoped a-Si: H by means of a temperature-modulated space-charge-limited currents (TM-SCLC) method in an annealed state A and after prolonged illumination—state B. With increasing illumination time the peak in the DOS at E - E C = 0·61 eV grows, and we attribute this to the D−-Si dangling bond level. From the difference in the position of this D− level and the stable Fermi level in state B (E F - E C = 0·79 eV) we deduce that the effective correlation energy of Si dangling bond in undoped a-Si: H is U eft = +0·36 ± 0·03 eV.Keywords
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