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Local investigation of recombination at grain boundaries in silicon by grain boundary‐electron beam induced current

Palm, 1993

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Palm J
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Journal of applied physics

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Grain boundary‐electron beam induced current (GB‐EBIC) is an alternative EBIC geometry without a Schottky contact or pn junction but with ohmic contacts on either side of a GB. The GB itself acts as a charge collecting plane. We developed this EBIC mode both …
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