Bond-length disorder and metastability in hydrogenated amorphous silicon

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 68, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 2261-2263

  Li, Qiming ^a   Biswas, R ^a  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

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EID: 0001140763     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.115878     Document Type: Article

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