Determination of the Trap State Density Differences in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon-Germanium Alloys

M. Boshta, K. Bärner, R. Braunstein, B. Alavi, B. Nelson

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Abstract

Time-resolved photo- and thermoelectric effects (TTE) were used to determine simultaneously trap levels and trap state density differences in amorphous (a-SiGe:H) samples. In particular, the trap state density differences are obtained from the decay of the ambipolar charge distribution (i.e., stage II of the TTE transients). This type of spectroscopy has been applied for the first time to a-SiGe:H samples, and indeed trap states that seem to relate to concentration fluctuations, that is, Si(Ge) and Ge(Si) clusters, are observed.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)48-53
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Materials Research
Volume20
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/JA-520-38377

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