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Molecular Physics
An International Journal at the Interface Between Chemistry and Physics
Volume 111, 2013 - Issue 18-19: Modern EPR Spectroscopy
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Electrical detection of Rabi oscillations in microcrystalline silicon thin-film solar cells

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Pages 2683-2689 | Received 25 Mar 2013, Accepted 24 Jun 2013, Published online: 09 Aug 2013
 

Abstract

The microscopic structure of light-activated paramagnetic conduction band tail states and their participation in spin-dependent hopping transport is studied in a microcrystalline silicon thin-film solar cell. Application of X- and S-band electrically detected magnetic resonance (EDMR) experiments in combination with numerical simulations of Rabi oscillations indicates that the spin-dependent process takes place between two neighbouring band tail states. For sufficiently high microwave (mw) power, two Rabi frequencies Ω1 and Ω2 = 2Ω1 show up in the coherent EDMR signals. An analysis of their relative contributions to the Rabi traces suggests that the g-values of both spin partners are not correlated for the majority of the EDMR-active pairs. A small fraction of doublet pairs with similar g-values may explain the appearance of a larger Ω2 contribution than predicted by the simulations.

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to O. Astakhov and F. Finger (Forschungszentrum Jülich) for sample preparation as well as to K.-P. Dinse (FU Berlin), Alexander Schnegg and Klaus Lips (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin) for helpful discussions. Financial support from BMBF (EPR-Solar network project 03SF0328) is acknowledged.

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