Metastable States in Amorphous Chalcogenide Semiconductors

This book addresses an interesting and technologically important class of materials, the amorphous chalcogenide semiconductors. Experimental results on the structural and electronic metastable states in Se-rich chalcogenides are presented.

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Victor I. Mikla Victor V. Mikla

Metastable States in Amorphous Chalcogenide Semiconductors With 68 Figures

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Prof. Dr. Victor I. Mikla

Dr. Victor V. Mikla

Uzhgorod State University Voloshina str., 54 Uzhgorod 88000 Ukraine E-mail: [email protected]

Chelyskincev str., 6/62 Uzhgorod 88000 Ukraine E-mail: [email protected]

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Professor Robert Hull

Professor Jürgen Parisi

University of Virginia Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering Thornton Hall Charlottesville, VA 22903-2442, USA

Universit¨at Oldenburg, Fachbereich Physik Abt. Energie- und Halbleiterforschung Carl-von-Ossietzky-Straße 9–11 26129 Oldenburg, Germany

Professor R. M. Osgood, Jr.

Professor Hans Warlimont

Microelectronics Science Laboratory Department of Electrical Engineering Columbia University Seeley W. Mudd Building New York, NY 10027, USA

DSL Dresden Material-Innovation GmbH Pirnaer Landstr. 176 01257 Dresden, Germany

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Preface

This monograph deals with metastable states in amorphous semiconductors – materials which lack long-range periodicity in the atoms’ positions, which are in thermodynamic nonequilibrium