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Interdiffusion and carrier recombination in high intensity transient gratings

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OSTI ID:527713
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  1. Technical Univ. of Munich, Garching (Germany)
Transient grating (TG) experiments were performed to study carrier diffusion and recombination in amorphous silicon films (a-Si:H) at high light intensities using 8 ns pulses from a frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser. The ambipolar diffusion coefficients reached about 10{sup {minus}2} cm{sup 2}/s, which is 2 orders of magnitude larger than the steady-state value. Similar results were obtained in intrinsic, p-, and n-doped a-Si:H films, indicating that the diffusion coefficients in all cases reflect the near band edge mobility of the slower carriers, that is holes. In particular, the p-type sample shows an initially fast, then a slow rating efficiency decay, consistent with dispersive transport.
OSTI ID:
527713
Report Number(s):
CONF-960401--; ISBN 1-55899-323-1
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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