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Effect of Thermal Equilibration on Dark- and Photo-Conductivities in Undoped Amorphous Silicon-Germanium Alloys
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2011
Abstract
We report the effect of thermal equilibration on the dark- and photo- conductivities of an un-doped a-Si,Ge:H,F with optical gap of 1.47 eV. Annealing at high temperature and subsequent quenching can freeze in the equilibrium configuration at the annealing temperature. The characteristic glass-like transition behavior of the conductivities was observed and used to estimate a freeze-in temperature of about 140°C. As the annealing temperature increases above the freeze-in temperature, the frozen-in dark- and photo- conductivities decrease, the photo- to dark- conductivity ratio increases, and the photoconductivity-generation rate exponent increases. These changes in conductivities are explained by a model calculation, which assumes that the quenching introduces new defect states to die lower energy flanks of the Gaussian defect distributions.
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