GB2007021A - High temperature amorphous semiconductor member and method of making it - Google Patents

High temperature amorphous semiconductor member and method of making it

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GB2007021A
GB2007021A GB7839177A GB7839177A GB2007021A GB 2007021 A GB2007021 A GB 2007021A GB 7839177 A GB7839177 A GB 7839177A GB 7839177 A GB7839177 A GB 7839177A GB 2007021 A GB2007021 A GB 2007021A
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H10N10/855—Thermoelectric active materials comprising inorganic compositions comprising compounds containing boron, carbon, oxygen or nitrogen
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    • H01L29/00—Semiconductor devices specially adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating or switching and having potential barriers; Capacitors or resistors having potential barriers, e.g. a PN-junction depletion layer or carrier concentration layer; Details of semiconductor bodies or of electrodes thereof ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
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    • H01L31/04—Semiconductor devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof adapted as photovoltaic [PV] conversion devices
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H10N—ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H10N10/00—Thermoelectric devices comprising a junction of dissimilar materials, i.e. devices exhibiting Seebeck or Peltier effects
    • H10N10/80—Constructional details
    • H10N10/85—Thermoelectric active materials
    • H10N10/851—Thermoelectric active materials comprising inorganic compositions
    • H10N10/8556—Thermoelectric active materials comprising inorganic compositions comprising compounds containing germanium or silicon
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Abstract

An amorphous semiconductor member capable of withstanding high temperatures and having good toughness characteristics comprises an amorphous semiconductor material including a composition of a plurality of elements, including one of the low atomic weight elements boron, carbon, germanium, nitrogen or oxygen, forming a host matrix having structural configurations with local order and electronic configurations providing an energy gap and an electrical activation energy. Added to the matrix is a modifier material such as a transition metal or rare earth element, having orbitals which interact with the matrix to form electronic states in the energy gap which modify substantially the electronic configurations of the matrix. When the matrix is formed from boron, carbon, silicon or germanium boron or carbon may be the modifier. The forming of the matrix and addition of the modifier material is preferably done by co- sputtering.
GB7839177A 1977-10-12 1978-10-03 High temperature amorphous semiconductor member and method of making the same Expired GB2007021B (en)

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US05/841,369 US4177474A (en) 1977-05-18 1977-10-12 High temperature amorphous semiconductor member and method of making the same

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GB2007021A true GB2007021A (en) 1979-05-10
GB2007021B GB2007021B (en) 1982-05-06

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AU (1) AU523107B2 (en)
CA (1) CA1123525A (en)
DE (1) DE2844070A1 (en)
ES (1) ES474153A1 (en)
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GB (1) GB2007021B (en)

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FR2490018A1 (en) * 1980-09-09 1982-03-12 Energy Conversion Devices Inc METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CALIBRATING BAND INTERVALS OF AMORPHOUS SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOYS AND ALLOYS OBTAINED
EP0053402A2 (en) * 1980-12-03 1982-06-09 Kanegafuchi Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha pin photovoltaic cell having a hetero junction of amorphous siliconcompound and amorphous silicon
EP0058543A1 (en) * 1981-02-12 1982-08-25 Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. Photoresponsive amorphous semiconductor alloys
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GB2124826A (en) * 1982-04-28 1984-02-22 Energy Conversion Devices Inc Amorphous semiconductor materials
EP0111247A2 (en) * 1982-12-14 1984-06-20 Kanegafuchi Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Photovoltaic device
EP0139409A1 (en) * 1983-08-26 1985-05-02 Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. Method of forming photovoltaic quality amorphous alloys by passivating defect states
US9564583B2 (en) * 2003-03-20 2017-02-07 Sony Corporation Memory device comprising a non-phase-changing amorphous chalcogenide memory layer and a metal chalcogenide ion-source layer

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FR2490018A1 (en) * 1980-09-09 1982-03-12 Energy Conversion Devices Inc METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CALIBRATING BAND INTERVALS OF AMORPHOUS SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOYS AND ALLOYS OBTAINED
EP0053402A2 (en) * 1980-12-03 1982-06-09 Kanegafuchi Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha pin photovoltaic cell having a hetero junction of amorphous siliconcompound and amorphous silicon
EP0053402A3 (en) * 1980-12-03 1983-03-30 Kanegafuchi Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha High-voltage photovoltaic cell having a hetero junction of amorphous semiconductor and amorphous silicon
EP0058543A1 (en) * 1981-02-12 1982-08-25 Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. Photoresponsive amorphous semiconductor alloys
EP0070509A2 (en) * 1981-07-17 1983-01-26 Kanegafuchi Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Amorphous semiconductor and amorphous silicon photovoltaic device
EP0070509A3 (en) * 1981-07-17 1986-08-27 Kanegafuchi Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Amorphous semiconductor and amorphous silicon photovoltaic device
GB2124826A (en) * 1982-04-28 1984-02-22 Energy Conversion Devices Inc Amorphous semiconductor materials
EP0111247A2 (en) * 1982-12-14 1984-06-20 Kanegafuchi Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Photovoltaic device
EP0111247A3 (en) * 1982-12-14 1986-08-13 Kanegafuchi Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Photovoltaic device
EP0139409A1 (en) * 1983-08-26 1985-05-02 Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. Method of forming photovoltaic quality amorphous alloys by passivating defect states
US9564583B2 (en) * 2003-03-20 2017-02-07 Sony Corporation Memory device comprising a non-phase-changing amorphous chalcogenide memory layer and a metal chalcogenide ion-source layer

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DE2844070C2 (en) 1990-02-01
FR2454186B1 (en) 1984-08-24
FR2454186A1 (en) 1980-11-07
JPS5464981A (en) 1979-05-25
JPS6230512B2 (en) 1987-07-02
AU4023778A (en) 1980-04-03
ES474153A1 (en) 1979-10-16
CA1123525A (en) 1982-05-11
GB2007021B (en) 1982-05-06
DE2844070A1 (en) 1979-04-26
AU523107B2 (en) 1982-07-15

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