Light-induced long-range hydrogen motion in hydrogenated amorphous silicon at room temperature

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Cheong, HM
Lee, SH
Nelson, BP
Mascarenhas, A
Deb, SK
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[1] Natl Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO 80401 USA
[2] Sogang Univ, Dept Phys, Seoul 121742, South Korea
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10.1063/1.1320015
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O59 [应用物理学];
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We present evidence for long-range hydrogen motion in hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) under room-temperature illumination, by monitoring the changes in the Raman spectrum of an a-WO3 overlayer with illumination. We observe that illumination causes hydrogen to diffuse out of the a-Si:H layer into the a-WO3 layer. This hydrogen motion is observed to saturate after about 30 min when the a-Si:H is illuminated with 15 W/cm(2) of the 514.5 nm laser line at room temperature. The amount of hydrogen that diffuses out of the a-Si:H layer is estimated semiquantitatively to be approximately 9x10(-4) at. %. (C) 2000 American Institute of Physics. [S0003-6951(00)02243-9].
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