Radiation Effects in Dielectric Materials.

Abstract

Test on sapphire samples under irradiation show that sputtered-silver contacts demonstrate nearly as much polarization as ion-cleaned evaporated contacts, and that there is no polarization apparent in irradiation of Czochralski-sapphire samples with epitaxial silicon layers. Calculations on irradiation data from a Czochralski-sapphire sample yield a trap density in this material of about 6 x 10 to the 14th power/cc with a trapping cross section of about 1.4 x 10 to the -14th power/sq. cm. Other calculations with these data indicate that the range of the ionized secondary electrons in this material is about 1000A. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0860916

Entities

People

  • John W. Harrity

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Compounds
  • Corpuscular Radiation
  • Dielectrics
  • Electrons
  • Elementary Fermions
  • Elementary Particles
  • Fermions
  • Inorganic Chemicals
  • Ionizing Radiation
  • Materials
  • Minerals
  • Nuclear Radiation
  • Polarization
  • Radiation
  • Radiation Effects
  • Sapphire

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Nuclear and Radiation Engineering.
  • Semiconductor Device Technology

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene