Author:
Cohen J. David,Kwon Daewon,Chen Chih-Chiang,Jin Hyun-Chul,Hollar Eric,Robertson Ian,Abelson John R.
Abstract
AbstractAmorphous silicon films were prepared by dc reactive magnetron sputtering under conditions approaching the phase transition to microcrystallinity. Using TEM imaging these films were found to contain clusters of 5 to 50 nm sized Si crystallites embedded in an amorphous silicon matrix. Photocapacitance and transient photocurrent sub-band-gap optical spectra of this material appear to consist of a superposition of a spectrum typical of amorphous silicon together with an optical transition, with a threshold near 1. 1eV, that exhibits a very large optical cross section. This transition arises from valence band electrons being optically inserted into empty levels lying within the amorphous silicon mobility gap. Using modulated photocurrent methods we have determined that these states also dominate the electron deep trapping in this material. We argue that these states arise from defects at the crystalline-amorphous boundary.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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