Sensitization of the minority carrier lifetime in hydrogenated amorphous silicon

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 103-105

  Rapaport, R ^a   Lubianiker, Y ^a   Balberg, I ^a   Fonseca, L ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

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EID: 0001452908     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.120658     Document Type: Article

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