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Recently, hydrogenated amorphous Silicon (a-Si:H) films have been investigated in many laboratories [1] especially from the prospect of solar cells. Role of H in these films has been widely recognized to terminate the Si dangling bonds through forming Si-H bonds reducing greatly gap states. With this reduction of the gap states, the addition of reasonable concentration of dopants such as P or B can move the Fermi level to give either n-or p-type a-Si:H, respectively. On the other hand, another important role of H for possible stabilization of amorphous phase of the a-Si:H has been discussed in less extent.
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Hiraki, A. (1986). Study of Amorphous to Microcrystalline Structure Change of Hydrogenated Si -- What Stabilizes the Amorphous Phase?. In: Walrafen, G.E., Revesz, A.G. (eds) Structure and Bonding in Noncrystalline Solids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9477-2_12
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