Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Department of
ORCID IDs
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2423-0463 Natale Ianno
Date of this Version
1-2018
Citation
J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 36(1), Jan/Feb 2018, #01-1207, 6 pp
DOI 10.1116/1.5008999
Abstract
The impact of neutron irradiation, in the energy range of ~0.025 eV, on amorphous semiconducting partially dehydrogenated boron carbide (a-B10C2+xHy) on silicon p-n heterojunction diodes was investigated. The heterojunction devices were created by synthesizing a-B10C2+xHy via plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition on n-type silicon. Unlike many electronic devices, the performance of the a-B10C2+xHy heterojunction diode improved with neutron irradiation, in spite of the large neutron cross section of 10B. There is also increased charge carrier lifetime of more than 200% with modest neutron irradiation of approximately 2.7×108 to 1.08×109 neutrons/cm2.
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