Numéro
J. Phys. Colloques
Volume 42, Numéro C4, Octobre 1981
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Amorphous and Liquid Semiconductors
Page(s) C4-551 - C4-554
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/jphyscol:19814119
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Amorphous and Liquid Semiconductors

J. Phys. Colloques 42 (1981) C4-551-C4-554

DOI: 10.1051/jphyscol:19814119

RECOMBINATION OF PHOTOGENERATED CARRIERS IN DOPED HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS SILICON

J.M. Hvam1 and M.H. Brodsky2

1  Department of Physics, Odense University, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
2  IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. 10598, U.S.A.


Abstract
Bulk recombination of photogenerated carriers is studied by transient photocurrent measurements in phosphorus doped a-Si:H. With light doping, the monomolecular recombination lifetime exceeds 10 ms and only a slow bimolecular recombination from extended states is observed. For very high initial carrier densities, a fast decay is suggested to be direct recombination from shallow band tail states.