Metastable States in Amorphous Chalcogenide Semiconductors

• Main Author: Mikla, Victor I. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science, 128
• Subjects: Optical materials.; Materials Science.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02745-1

This book addresses an interesting and technologically important class of materials, the amorphous chalcogenide semiconductors. Experimental results on the structural and electronic metastable states in Se-rich chalcogenides are presented. Special attention is paid to the states in the mobility gap...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Effect of Thermal Evaporation Conditions on Structure and Structural Changes in Amorphous Arsenic Sulfides
• Optical Absorption and Structural Transformations in Arsenic Selenide Films
• Trap Level Spectroscopy in Amorphous Selenium-Based Semiconductors
• Photoinduced Effects on Electronic Metastable States
• Deep Level Spectroscopy in Selenium-Rich Amorphous Semiconductors
• Recombination Process and Nonisothermal Relaxation of Low-Temperature Photoinduced Effects
• Electronic Properties of Materials with Gross Permanent Photoinduced Changes: Cu-As-Se Glasses
• Carrier Transport in Selenium-Based Amorphous Multilayer Structures.