Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2011
Two-pulse-echo field-sweep spectra of boron-doped samples show in addition to dangling bonds (DB) a very broad feature of approximately 500 G width. This feature is the sum of several lines whose relative intensities change with doping and temperature. The total intensity increases with doping. The spin-lattice relaxation time T I of the resonance at g=1.998 referred to as conduction electrons (CE) has been studied for undoped and P-doped microcrystalline silicon. The discrepancy between T 1 values previously reported has been resolved and the values for CE are at least two orders of magnitude smaller than those of the DB. In undoped samples cross-relaxation between the CE and DB spin systems might explain the similar T 1 values obtained for CE and DB in inversion recovery measurements.