Tetrahedrally-Bonded Amorphous Semiconductors (Institute for Amorphous Studies Series)

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