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Relaxation Of Non-Equilibrium Hydrogen Distributions In a-Si:H

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Guy J. Adriaenssens  and
Qing Zhiang
Guy J. Adriaenssens
Affiliation:
Laboratori um voor Halfgeleiderfysica, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestij nenlaan 200D, B-3001 Heverlee-Leuven, Belgium.
Qing Zhiang
Affiliation:
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore.
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Abstract

It is shown that a reduction of the three-level energy diagram proposed by Van de Walle (Phys. Rev. B 53, 11292, 1996) to describe the relaxation of non-equilibrium hydrogen distributions, to just the interstitial transport level and a distribution of traps, allows an essentially equivalent formulation of the hydrogen relaxation kinetics. The modified formulation offers the possibility of accounting for dispersive diffusion while preserving the essential multiple retrapping aspect of the original proposal.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 513: Symposium H – Hydrogen in Semiconductors and Metals , 1998 , 159
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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