Investigations of Localized States in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon

1984 ◽  
Vol 23 (Part 1, No. 1) ◽  
pp. 6-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fon-Shan Huang ◽  
Hua Chang ◽  
Jiann-Ruey Chen ◽  
Yuen-Chung Liu
1991 ◽  
Vol 219 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Kanicki ◽  
C. Godet ◽  
A. V. Gelatos

ABSTRACTThe effects of positive and negative bias stress on hydrogenated amorphous silicon nitride / crystalline silicon and hydrogenated amorphous silicon nitride / hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) structures are investigated as a function of stress time, stress temperature and stress bias. It is shown that in both structures bias stress induces a parallel shift of the C-V (capacitance-voltage) characteristics. For a given stress bias the direction of the C-V shift depends on the sign of the applied stress voltage, while the magnitude of the C-V shift depends on stress time and temperature. In addition, it is shown that positive bias stress slightly increases the number of localized states in the a-Si:H mobility gap, but negative bias stress does not. These results lead us to conclude that the C-V shift is not induced by dangling bond defects in a-Si:H but rather by carrier trapping in the insulator.


1981 ◽  
Vol 42 (C4) ◽  
pp. C4-773-C4-777 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. R. Shanks ◽  
F. R. Jeffrey ◽  
M. E. Lowry

2003 ◽  
Vol 762 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guofu Hou ◽  
Xinhua Geng ◽  
Xiaodan Zhang ◽  
Ying Zhao ◽  
Junming Xue ◽  
...  

AbstractHigh rate deposition of high quality and stable hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) films were performed near the threshold of amorphous to microcrystalline phase transition using a very high frequency plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (VHF-PECVD) method. The effect of hydrogen dilution on optic-electronic and structural properties of these films was investigated by Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, Raman scattering and constant photocurrent method (CPM). Experiment showed that although the phase transition was much influenced by hydrogen dilution, it also strongly depended on substrate temperature, working pressure and plasma power. With optimized condition high quality and high stable a-Si:H films, which exhibit σph/σd of 4.4×106 and deposition rate of 28.8Å/s, have been obtained.


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