Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2011-10-31
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 013710 (2012)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
8 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.3675449
Electrically detected magnetic resonance is used to identify recombination centers in a set of Czochralski grown silicon samples processed to contain strained oxide precipitates with a wide range of densities (~ 1e9 cm-3 to ~ 7e10 cm-3). Measurements reveal that photo-excited charge carriers recombine through Pb0 and Pb1 dangling bonds and comparison to precipitate-free material indicates that these are present at both the sample surface and the oxide precipitates. The electronic recombination rates vary approximately linearly with precipitate density. Additional resonance lines arising from iron-boron and interstitial iron are observed and discussed. Our observations are inconsistent with bolometric heating and interpreted in terms of spin-dependent recombination. Electrically detected magnetic resonance is thus a very powerful and sensitive spectroscopic technique to selectively probe recombination centers in modern photovoltaic device materials.
Falster R. J.
Lang V.
Morton John J. L.
Murphy Jeremy D.
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