Photoinduced metastable states in amorphous organic polysilanes studied by the transient photocurrent technique

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 5523-5528

  Naito, Hiroyoshi ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amorphous organic polysilane; Configurational coordinate potential energy diagram; Dangling bonds; Photoinduced phenomena; Rate equations; Time of flight transient photocurrent measurement

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; GROUND STATE; PHOTOCURRENTS; POLYSILANES; POTENTIAL ENERGY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

POTENTIAL-ENERGY DIAGRAMS;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS;

EID: 0036756976     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.41.5523     Document Type: Article

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