JOURNAL ARTICLE

Electronic properties of amorphous silicon selenium films

F. G. WakimS. A. Abo-NamousA. Al-JassarMajid Hassan

Year: 1983 Journal:   Applied Physics Letters Vol: 42 (6)Pages: 523-524   Publisher: American Institute of Physics

Abstract

The presence of selenium in amorphous silicon films increases the optical gap from 1.25 to 1.8 eV. At the same time, the room-temperature resistivity increases by four orders of magnitude and thermal activation energy increases from 0.16 to 0.76 and 0.41 eV for the high and low-temperature regions, respectively.

Keywords:
Silicon Selenium Materials science Amorphous solid Amorphous silicon Electrical resistivity and conductivity Band gap Amorphous semiconductors Analytical Chemistry (journal) Optoelectronics Crystalline silicon Chemistry Crystallography Metallurgy Physics

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Topics

Thin-Film Transistor Technologies
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence
Physical Sciences →  Materials Science →  Materials Chemistry
Phase-change materials and chalcogenides
Physical Sciences →  Materials Science →  Materials Chemistry

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