• DocumentCode
    3294160
  • Title

    Photoacoustic investigations of the impurity states in silicon by using a piezoelectric transducer

  • Author

    Ikari, T. ; Miyazaki, K. ; Futagami, K.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron., Miyazaki Univ., Japan
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    8-11 Dec 1991
  • Firstpage
    585
  • Abstract
    Photoacoustic (PA) measurements of p-Si single crystals near the optical absorption edge were carried out by using a PZT as a detector. A pronounced peak at 1.07 eV appears in addition to the plateau. By considering a hole carrier concentration dependence and a compensation effect by thermally generated donors on the PA spectra, it is concluded that the observed peak is due to the transitions involving boron acceptor impurities. Low temperature spectra down to 90 K also support this conclusion
  • Keywords
    boron; elemental semiconductors; impurity electron states; photoacoustic spectra; silicon; PZT; Si:B; compensation effect; hole carrier concentration dependence; impurity states; optical absorption edge; p-type semiconductor; piezoelectric transducer; thermally generated donors; Absorption; Boron; Crystals; Etching; Impurities; Piezoelectric transducers; Silicon; Spectroscopy; Surface contamination; Temperature;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Ultrasonics Symposium, 1991. Proceedings., IEEE 1991
  • Conference_Location
    Orlando, FL
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ULTSYM.1991.234230
  • Filename
    234230