Origin of charged gap states in a-Si:H and their evolution during light soaking

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Nadazdy V ^a,b   Zeman, M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENERGY; LIGHT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 42749106751     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.69.165213     Document Type: Article

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