Electron paramagnetic resonance of dangling bond centers in vacuum‐annealed porous silicon

1995 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 2857-2859 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Laiho ◽  
L. S. Vlasenko
1996 ◽  
Vol 452 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. H. Nickel ◽  
E. A. Schiff

AbstractThe temperature dependence of the silicon dangling-bond resonance in polycrystalline (poly-Si) and amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) was measured. At room temperature, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) measurements reveal an isotropie g-value of 2.0055 and a line width of 6.5 and 6.1 G for Si dangling-bonds in a-Si:H and poly-Si, respectively. In both materials spin density and g-value are independent of temperature. While in a-Si:H the width of the resonance did not change with temperature, poly-Si exhibits a remarkable T dependence of ΔHpp. In unpassivated poly-Si a pronounced decrease of ΔHpp is observed for temperatures above 300 K. At 384 K ΔHpp reaches a minimum of 5.1 G, then increases to 6.1 G at 460 K, and eventually decreases to 4.6 G at 530 K. In hydrogenated poly-Si ΔHpp decreases monotonically above 425 K. The decrease of ΔHpp is attributed to electron hopping causing motional narrowing. An average hopping distance of 15 and 17.5 Å was estimated for unhydrogenated and H passivated poly-Si, respectively.


2007 ◽  
Vol 556-557 ◽  
pp. 453-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Umeda ◽  
Norio Morishita ◽  
Takeshi Ohshima ◽  
Hisayoshi Itoh ◽  
Junichi Isoya

Carbon antisite-vacancy pair (CSiVC) is a fundamental defect in SiC, and is theoretically predicted to be very stable in p-type materials. However, this pair was found only in the form of a negatively charged state (i.e., the SI5 center = CSiVC −) in n-type and semi-insulating 4H-SiC, and yet, its presence has not been shown in p-type SiC. In this report, we present the first EPR observation on positively charged CSiVC pairs in p-type 4H-SiC. By carefully examining p-type samples after electron irradiation, we found a pair of new defects with C3v and C1h symmetries. They correspond to “c-axial” pairs (C3v) and “basal” pairs (C1h) of CSiVC +, respectively. The positively charged pairs are characterized by a strong 13C hyperfine interaction due to a dangling bond on a carbon antisite (CSi), which is successfully resolved for the c-axial pairs.


1995 ◽  
Vol 66 (26) ◽  
pp. 3660-3662 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Schoisswohl ◽  
J. L. Cantin ◽  
H. J. von Bardeleben ◽  
G. Amato

1996 ◽  
Vol 276 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 241-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.L Cantin ◽  
M Schoisswohl ◽  
H.J von Bardeleben ◽  
N.Hadj Zoubir ◽  
M Vergnat

1993 ◽  
Vol 63 (15) ◽  
pp. 2120-2122 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. K. Meyer ◽  
D. M. Hofmann ◽  
W. Stadler ◽  
V. Petrova‐Koch ◽  
F. Koch ◽  
...  

1992 ◽  
Vol 60 (17) ◽  
pp. 2116-2117 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. V. Bhat ◽  
K. Jayaram ◽  
D. Victor S. Muthu ◽  
A. K. Sood

1994 ◽  
Vol 76 (7) ◽  
pp. 4290-4293 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Laiho ◽  
L. S. Vlasenko ◽  
M. M. Afanasiev ◽  
M. P. Vlasenko

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