Hydrogen collision model: Quantitative description of metastability in amorphous silicon

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 5498-5512

  Branz, Howard M ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0000578389     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.5498     Document Type: Article

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