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Charge carrier transport in a structure with silicon nanocrystals embedded into oxide matrix

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Current-voltage characteristics of Al/SiO2/c-Si structures with silicon nanocrystals (nc-Si) in the oxide layer are studied in a wide temperature range. The analysis based on the experimental data has shown that thermostimulated tunneling via electron states in nc-Si is a most probable mechanism of charge carrier transport in these structures.

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  1. Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Vorob’evy gory, Moscow, 119899, Russia

    Yu. V. Ryabchikov, P. A. Forsh, V. Yu. Timoshenko & P. K. Kashkarov

  2. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Politekhnicheskaya ul. 26, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia

    E. A. Lebedev

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, 07102, USA

    B. V. Kamenev & L. Tsybeskov

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Original Russian Text © Yu.V. Ryabchikov, P.A. Forsh, E.A. Lebedev, V.Yu. Timoshenko, P.K. Kashkarov, B.V. Kamenev, L. Tsybeskov, 2006, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2006, Vol. 40, No. 9, pp. 1079–1081.

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Ryabchikov, Y.V., Forsh, P.A., Lebedev, E.A. et al. Charge carrier transport in a structure with silicon nanocrystals embedded into oxide matrix. Semiconductors 40, 1052–1054 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782606090119

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