Electrically Detected HYSCORE on Conduction Band Tail States in ^{29}Si-Enriched Microcrystalline Silicon |
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Authors: | Christoph Meier Christian Teutloff Oleksandr Astakhov Friedhelm Finger Robert Bittl Jan Behrends |
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Institution: | 1. Berlin Joint EPR Lab, Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universit?t Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14159, Berlin, Germany 2. Institut für Energie- und Klimaforschung 5-Photovoltaik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425, Jülich, Germany
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Abstract: | Electrically detected hyperfine sublevel correlation (ED-HYSCORE) measurements are presented and employed to study spin-dependent transport in thin-film microcrystalline silicon solar cells. We explore the hyperfine coupling between paramagnetic conduction band tail states involved in hopping transport and neighboring 29Si nuclei at low temperature ( \(T = 5\) K). ED-HYSCORE measurements performed on solar cells with 29Si-enriched absorber layers reveal that the hyperfine interaction between these current-influencing centers and 29Si nuclei in the surroundings is dominated by isotropic couplings up to \(\sim\) 4 MHz, whereas the anisotropic contributions are small. This indicates that the wave function of the conduction band tail states is distributed over several nuclei. Our results demonstrate that the ED-HYSCORE technique can provide helpful insight into the microscopic structure of transport-relevant paramagnetic states and thus usefully complement the toolbox of electrically detected magnetic resonance spectroscopy. |
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