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Improvement in the degradation resistance of silicon nanostructures by the deposition of diamond-like carbon films

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It is established that the deposition of a diamond-like film onto a structure with silicon nanoclusters in a silicon dioxide matrix yields an increase in the long-wavelength photoluminescence intensity of silicon nanoclusters due to the passivation of active-recombination centers with hydrogen and a shift of the photoluminescence peak to the region of higher photosensitivity of silicon-based solar cells. It is also shown that, due to the deposited diamond-like film, the resistance of such a structure to degradation upon exposure to γ radiation is improved, which is also defined by the effect of the passivation of radiation-induced activerecombination centers by hydrogen that is released from the films during treatment.

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  1. Lashkarev Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, 03028, Ukraine

    N. I. Klyui, M. A. Semenenko, I. M. Khatsevich, A. V. Makarov & A. N. Kabaldin

  2. Kremenchug National University, Kremenchug, 03680, Ukraine

    F. V. Fomovskii

  3. College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, P.R. China

    Wei Han

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Original Russian Text © N.I. Klyui, M.A. Semenenko, I.M. Khatsevich, A.V. Makarov, A.N. Kabaldin, F.V. Fomovskii, Wei Han, 2015, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2015, Vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 1056–1060.

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Klyui, N.I., Semenenko, M.A., Khatsevich, I.M. et al. Improvement in the degradation resistance of silicon nanostructures by the deposition of diamond-like carbon films. Semiconductors 49, 1030–1034 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782615080126

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