Saturation behavior of the light-induced defect density in hydrogenated amorphous silicon

H. R. Park; J. Z. Liu; P. Roca i Cabarrocas; A. Maruyama; M. Isomura; S. Wagner; J. R. Abelson; F. Finger

Saturation behavior of the light-induced defect density in hydrogenated amorphous silicon

H. R. Park
, J. Z. Liu
, P. Roca i Cabarrocas
, A. Maruyama
, M. Isomura
, S. Wagner
, J. R. Abelson
, F. Finger

Princeton University

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Abstract

The light-induced generation of defects in a-Si:H(F) was saturated by a few hours of illumination with Kr-ion-laser light soaking (λ = 647.1 nm) near room temperature. The time to reach saturation scales roughly with 1/G², but the saturation value is essentially independent of the illumination intensity. Therefore, the saturation is not due to thermal annealing. The saturation values of the light-induced defect density in 37 a-Si:H(F) samples which had been grown in six different reactors over a range of conditions were measured. These a-Si:H(F) samples have annealed-state defect densities in the range of 1.1 × 10¹⁵ to 1.6 × 10¹⁶ cm^-3, Urbach energies of 42-62 meV, and Tauc optical bandgaps of 1.61 to 1.83 eV. The saturation value rises from 5 × 10¹⁶ to 2 × 10¹⁷ cm^-3 with increasing optical gap and total hydrogen content, but it is not correlated with the Urbach energy or with the annealed-state defect density.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1642-1647
Number of pages	6
Journal	Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
Volume	2
Publication status	Published - 1 May 1990
Externally published	Yes
Event	Twenty First IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference - 1990 Part 2 (of 2) - Kissimimee, FL, USA Duration: 21 May 1990 → 25 May 1990

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Saturation behavior of the light-induced defect density in hydrogenated amorphous silicon

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