Development in Understanding and Controlling the Staebler-Wronski Effect in a-Si:H

▪ Abstract Hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) exhibits a metastable light-induced degradation of its optoelectronic properties that is called the Staebler-Wronski effect, after its discoverers...

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