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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 73, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.193311
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Time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy is used to probe ultrafast carrier dynamics and terahertz conductivity in photoexcited thin films of silicon nanocrystals, polynanocrystalline silicon, and epitaxial silicon-on-sapphire. We show that a Drude-Smith model provides an excellent fit to the observed transient terahertz conductivity in all of our samples, revealing a transition from a Drude-like response with low carrier backscatter in bulk silicon-on-sapphire to a non-Drude-like, localized behavior with high carrier backscatter in the silicon nanocrystal films. Evidence for long-range conduction between nanocrystals is observed, and we show that the photoconductive lifetime of the silicon nanocrystals is dominated by trapping at Si/SiO2 interface states.
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