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Amorphous silicon
About: Amorphous silicon is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 26777 publications have been published within this topic receiving 423234 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the influence of variations in the incident solar spectrum on solar cells and found that amorphous silicon is the most susceptible to changes in the spectral distribution, with the "useful fraction" of the light varying in the range +6% to −9% of the annual average.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the ON-state has its origins in a highly conducting filament less than lμm in diameter and the physical mechanisms that could play a role in the switching operations are discussed.
Abstract: Extensive new results have been obtained on memory switching in a-Si p + ni junctions It is shown that the ON-state has its origins in a highly conducting filament less than lμm in diameter The physical mechanisms that could play a role in the switching operations are discussed
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate that the superior solar absorptance of amorphous silicon can be utilized in photothermal solar energy converters of sufficient stability without sacrificing the advantages of CVD fabrication.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of a prototype material consisting of amorphous Si thin film (∼250mm) deposited by radio frequency magnetron sputtering on ammorphous carbon thin films, denoted as a -C/Si, has been investigated.
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TL;DR: The structure of doped amorphous silicon is shown to be in metastable thermal equilibrium above 130°C, having temperature-dependent densities of dangling bonds and donors.
Abstract: The structure of doped amorphous silicon is shown to be in metastable thermal equilibrium above 130\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{}C, having temperature-dependent densities of dangling bonds and donors. The time to reach equilibrium is thermally activated, so that cooling establishes a slowly relaxing nonequilibrium state resembling a glass. The results are interpreted in terms of the recent defect-compensation model of doping.
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