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Metastability of Phosphorus- or Boron Doped a-Si:H Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

P. St'ahel ,
P. Roca i Cabarrocas ,
P. Sladek  and
M.L. Theye
P. St'ahel
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique des Interfaces et des Couches Minces, UMR 7647 CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, Cedex, France Dept. of Physics, PdF Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Laboratoire d'Optique des Solides, (UMR 7601 CNRS), Universitd Pierre et Marie Curie, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
P. Roca i Cabarrocas
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique des Interfaces et des Couches Minces, UMR 7647 CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, Cedex, France
P. Sladek
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics, PdF Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
M.L. Theye
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Optique des Solides, (UMR 7601 CNRS), Universitd Pierre et Marie Curie, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Abstract

The effects of light-soaking on either phosphorus- or boron-doped a-Si:H films were studied as functions of the doping level and the temperature. In the case of boron-doped films, the most important effect is the improvement of the conductivity during light-soaking, which is related to the activation of boron. On the contrary, phosphorus-doped films present a remarkable stability, although lightly phosphorus-doped ones show a decrease of their conductivity by five orders of magnitude when light-soaking is performed below 40 °C. This effect is attributed to the formation of P-H complexes which are stable at low temperature only. Our results suggest that in both types of doped a-Si:H films the creation of metastable defects is a second order effect with respect to the activation or passivation of dopants, which results from their interaction with hydrogen.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 507: Symposium A – Amorphous & Microcrystalline Silicon Technology 1998 , 1998 , 649
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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