Room temperature reactions involving silicon dangling bond centers and molecular hydrogen in amorphous SiO2 thin films on silicon

Exposing thin films of amorphous SiO2 to molecular hydrogen at room temperature converts some silicon dangling bond defects, E’ centers, into two hydrogen coupled complexes. These reactions may play important roles in radiation and hot carrier instabilities in metal/oxide/silicon devices.

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