LOW TEMPERATURE ELECTRON TRAPPING LIFETIMES AND EXTRINSIC PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY IN N-TYPE SILICON DOPED WITH SHALLOW IMPURITIES

Abstract

The trapping lifetimes tL are generally independent of temperature between 4.2 K, and 1.2 K, and are inversely proportional to the compensating acceptor concentration. This latter was determined using a recently developed combined infrared radiation and spin resonance method. The trapping cross-section result for phosphorus donors is about 000,000,000,005 square centimeters at 3 K. This is about an order of magnitude larger than the value obtained from the giant trap theory of M. Lax. Also, the concentration independence of the cross-section in the region of temperature independent tL is not accounted for easily. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0264468

Entities

People

  • A. Honig
  • R. Levitt

Organizations

  • Syracuse University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Corpuscular Radiation
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Electrons
  • Elementary Fermions
  • Elementary Particles
  • Fermions
  • Impurities
  • Infrared Radiation
  • Ionizing Radiation
  • Low Temperature
  • Magnetic Resonance
  • Motion
  • Nuclear Radiation
  • Optical Phenomena
  • Radiation
  • Resonance
  • Spin Resonance

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Regression Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics