Carrier recombination and lifetime in highly doped silicon

Autor: R.P. Mertens, Jerry G. Fossum, D.S. Lee, J.F. Nijs
Rok vydání: 1983
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Zdroj: Solid-State Electronics. 26:569-576
ISSN: 0038-1101
DOI: 10.1016/0038-1101(83)90173-9
Popis: The predominance of phonon-assisted band-band Auger recombination in highly doped silicon is demonstrated by showing that no recombination mechanism involving common (unavoidable) defects in silicon can yield carrier lifetimes that are consistent with the measured lifetimes, which exhibit an inverse-quadratic doping-density dependence, and/or with their temperature dependence. Both trap-assisted-Auger and Shockley-Read-Hall recombination mechanisms are considered, and dependences of the defect density on the doping density, which are implied by theory and experiment, are accounted for.
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