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Photoinduced structural changes in amorphous semiconductors

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A variety of photostructural changes observed in tetrahedral and chalcogenide amorphous semiconductors are reviewed from physical and chemical points of view. In particular, observations of the photodarkening and related phenomena in chalcogenide glasses are summarized, and structural models which have been proposed so far are criticized.

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Fiz. Tekh. Poluprovodn. 32, 964–969 (August 1998)

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Tanaka, K. Photoinduced structural changes in amorphous semiconductors. Semiconductors 32, 861–866 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1187473

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