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American Physical Society, Physical Review B (Condensed Matter), 11(63)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.63.113201

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Sensitization of the electron lifetime ina-Si:H: The story of oxygen

Journal article published in 2001 by I. Balberg, R. Naidis, L. F. Fonseca, S. Z. Weisz, J. P. Conde, P. Alpuim ORCID, V. Chu
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Abstract

We have found, in hydrogenated-amorphous silicon (a-Si:H), values as low as 0 for the exponent gammah that characterizes the light-intensity dependence of the minority-carrier concentration. The model simulation analyses of the temperature dependence of gammah and the phototransport properties of the majority carriers show that these unprecedented low values in general, and in a-Si:H in particular, are associated with the presence of an acceptorlike center, the energy level of which lies 0.3-0.5 eV above the valence-band edge. Our results show then that the common analyses of the photoelectronic properties of a-Si:H only in terms of dangling bonds and band-tail states are not justified, and that the ``safe hole traps'' that were proposed to exist in a-Si:H can be identified now as oxygen-induced acceptorlike centers.