Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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729145 | Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing | 2015 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
We use photoluminescence to observe light-induced degradation in silicon in real time. Numerical simulations are used to match our results and lifetime decay data from the literature with theoretical models for the generation of the light-induced boron–oxygen defects. It is found that the existing model of the slowly generated defect SRC, where its saturated concentration is a function of the majority carrier concentration, does not explain certain results in both p- and n-type samples. A new model is proposed in which the saturated SRC concentration is controlled by the total hole concentration under illumination.
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Authors
K. Fraser, D. Blanc-Pelissier, S. Dubois, J. Veirman, M. Lemiti,