Majority-carrier capture cross-section determination in the large deep-trap concentration cases
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- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 59 (5) , 1562-1569
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.336465
Abstract
A method to determine the thermal cross section of a deep level from capacitance measurements is reported. The results enable us to explain the nonexponential behavior of the capacitance versus capture time when the trap concentration is not negligible with respect to that of the shallow one, and the Debye tail effects are taken into account. A figure of merit for the nonexponential behavior of the capture process is shown and discussed for different situations of doping and applied bias. We have also considered the influence of the position of the trap level’s energy on the nonexponentiality of the capture transient. The experimental results are given for the gold acceptor level in silicon and for the DX center in Al0.55 Ga0.45As, which are in good agreement with the developed theory.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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