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Phys. Rev. B 23, 5634–5637 (1981)

Effect of hydrogen on the density of gap states in reactively sputtered amorphous silicon

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T. Tiedje, T. D. Moustakas, and J. M. Cebulka
Corporate Research Laboratory, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Linden, New Jersey 07036

Received 6 January 1981; published in the issue dated 15 May 1981

The density of states near midgap and the hydrogen content have been measured on a number of reactively sputtered a-SiHx films prepared at different hydrogen partial pressures. The density of states near midgap is observed to decrease exponentially with increasing hydrogen partial pressure to less than 1015 states cm-3 eV-1. The data are interpreted in terms of a simple kinetic model of the H incorporation in the a-Si network.

© 1981 The American Physical Society

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10.1103/PhysRevB.23.5634
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