Tetrahedrally-Bonded Amorphous Semiconductors

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Glow Discharge Deposition of Amorphous Semiconductors: The Early Years....Pages 1-10
Medium Range Order and Micro Structure of a-Si:H, New Trends....Pages 11-26
A Detective Story “Shock Crystallization of Sputtered Amorphous Germanium Films”....Pages 27-36
Ordering in Amorphous Germanium....Pages 37-50
Bonding in Distorted Tetrahedra by S-P-D Hybrid Bonds....Pages 51-62
Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Studies of the Growth and Microstructure of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon....Pages 63-77
The Influence of Disorder on the Properties of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon and Related Alloys....Pages 79-91
Growth and Crystallization Mechanism of Microcrystalline Silicon Films Produced by Reactive RF Sputtering....Pages 93-105
Structure and H Bonding in Device Quality a-Si:H....Pages 107-115
Hydrogen Neutralization of Defects in Silicon....Pages 117-128
Hydrogen Incorporation in Amorphous Silicon and Processes of Its Release....Pages 129-146
Defect Passivation and Photoconduction in Sputtered a-Ge:H....Pages 147-156
Ion Implanted Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon....Pages 157-164
The Role of Impurities in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon....Pages 165-175
Bonding in Amorphous Semiconductors; Beyond the 8-N Rule....Pages 177-186
Weak Bonds in Amorphous Semiconductors....Pages 187-195
Dangling Bond Defects in a-Si,Ge Alloys: A Theoretical Study Using the Tight-Binding Method....Pages 197-211
Study of Disorder in Flash-Evaporated Amorphous InP Films....Pages 213-220
Gap States in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon: The Trapped Hole Centres (The a Centres)....Pages 221-232
On the Nature of Gap States in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Alloys....Pages 233-238
Gap States in Phosphorus-Doped a-Si:H....Pages 239-253
A Technique for Calculating the Density of Electronic States of Disordered Materials....Pages 255-270
The Optical Threshold of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon....Pages 271-285
Density of States Distribution and Transport Properties of a-Ge:H....Pages 287-298
Is the DLTS Density of States for Amorphous Silicon Correct?....Pages 299-314
Staebler-Wronski Effect in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon....Pages 315-324
Hopping Transport in Tetrahedrally Bonded Amorphous Films Via States Near the Fermi Level....Pages 325-343
Time Resolved Optical Modulation Spectroscopy of Amorphous Semiconductors....Pages 345-356
Coplanar Transient Photocurrents and the Density of States in a-Si:H....Pages 357-366
Trapping of Electrons and Holes in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon....Pages 367-377
Hole Transport in Glow Discharge a-SiGe x :H,(F) Alloys....Pages 379-388
The Effect of Diffusion Limited Kinetics on Current Flow in Amorphous Materials....Pages 389-396
Geminate, Nongeminate and Exciton Recombination in a-Si:H....Pages 397-405
Band-Tail Diffusion and Photoluminescence in a-Si:H....Pages 407-413
On the Determination of the Gap Density of States in Amorphous Semiconductors from Investigations on Doping Superstructures....Pages 415-424
Effective Medium Expression for the Optical Properties of Periodic Multilayer Films....Pages 425-431
Effects of Mean Free Path on the Quantum Well Structures of Amorphous Materials....Pages 433-439
Luminescence of Amorphous Silicon Superlattices....Pages 441-455
Amorphous Semiconductor Heterostructures....Pages 457-467
Interfaces Between Crystalline and Amorphous Tetrahedrally Coordinated Semiconductors....Pages 469-482
Amorphous-Crystalline Heterojunctions....Pages 483-500
On the Properties of Quasi One Dimensional Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Films....Pages 501-511
Recent Advances in Amorphous Silicon and Its Technological Applications....Pages 513-530
Amorphous Tetrahedrally-Bonded Materials for Macroelectronics....Pages 531-541
Back Matter....Pages 543-564