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Microscopic Aspects Of Charge Transport In Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Silicon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2011

Antonín Fejfar ,
Tomáš Mates ,
Christian Koch ,
Bohuslav Rezek ,
Vladimír Švřek ,
Petr Fojtík ,
Ha Stuchlíková ,
Jiř́ Stuchlík  and
Jan Kočka
Antonín Fejfar
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Cukrovarnická 10, 162 53 Prague, Czech Republic
Tomáš Mates
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Cukrovarnická 10, 162 53 Prague, Czech Republic
Christian Koch
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Cukrovarnická 10, 162 53 Prague, Czech Republic
Bohuslav Rezek
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Cukrovarnická 10, 162 53 Prague, Czech Republic
Vladimír Švřek
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Cukrovarnická 10, 162 53 Prague, Czech Republic
Petr Fojtík
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Cukrovarnická 10, 162 53 Prague, Czech Republic
Ha Stuchlíková
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Cukrovarnická 10, 162 53 Prague, Czech Republic
Jiř́ Stuchlík
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Cukrovarnická 10, 162 53 Prague, Czech Republic
Jan Kočka
Affiliation:
Institute of Physical Elektronics, Stuttgart University, Pfaffenwaldring 47, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Abstract

Charge transport in hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon (µc-Si:H) is determined by structure on several size scales: i) local atomic arrangement (<1 nm), ii) crystalline grains and their boundaries (1-10 nm), iii) grain aggregates or columns (0.1-1 µm) and finally iv) features comparable to layer thickness (0.1-10 µm). We first summarize our experimental results concerning these effects: differences of conductivities of grains and amorphous tissue measured locally by conductive AFM, transport anisotropy observed by comparing dark conductivity and ambipolar diffusion length parallel and perpendicular to the substrate, and finally thickness dependence of transport parameters (e.g. dark conductivity activation energy and prefactor). Most of these phenomena can be described by using a novel model of the µc-Si:H growth leading to a structure known as Voronoi adjacency network. The model is based on the nearest neighbor constrained growth. To our knowledge, the Voronoi structure is the first structural model able to predict structure and transport properties of the µc-Si:H and it may become a basis for the future predictive model of µc-Si:H based solar cells.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 664: Symposium A – Amorphous and Heterogeneous Silicon-Based Films-2001 , 2001 , A16.1
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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