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Amorphous semiconductors equivalent to crystalline semiconductors produced by a glow discharge process

  • US 4,226,898 A
  • Filed: 03/16/1978
  • Issued: 10/07/1980
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/16/1978
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. The method of making a semiconductor film comprising a solid amorphous semiconductor host matrix including at least one element and having electronic configurations which have an energy gap and a density of localized states therein, said method comprising depositing on a substrate a solid amorphous semiconductor host matrix including at least one element by glow discharge decomposition of a compound containing said at least one element and at least one alterant element in a partial vacuum having an atmosphere separately containing at least one different alterant element and not derived from the compound, wherein said different at least one alterant elements of said compound and separately contained in said atmosphere comprise at least fluorine and are incorporated in said amorphous semiconductor host matrix during deposition thereof yelding an altered amorphous semiconductor material having altered electronic configurations with a reduced density of localized states in the energy gap.

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