Lifetime measurements in semiconductors by infrared absorption due to pulsed optical excitation
Applied Physics Letters1987Vol. 51(18), pp. 1445–1447
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Abstract
A new contactless technique for determination of excess carrier lifetime in semiconductors is demonstrated. The technique involves measuring the change in the transmitted intensity of a continuous probe beam (hν<Eg) as a function of time through a semiconductor sample after switching off the excitation from a pulsed pump beam (hνp>Eg). The technique has been applied to silicon samples having different doping densities. The measured lifetime values in the range of 0.5–200 μs on both n-type and p-type silicon samples by this new technique agree well with the values obtained by the traditional photoconductive decay method.
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