Eh. Poindexter et al., ELECTRICALLY-DETECTED MAGNETIC-RESONANCE NEAR THE P-DOPED N-DOPED INTERFACE OF SI JUNCTION DIODES, Colloids and surfaces. A, Physicochemical and engineering aspects, 72, 1993, pp. 119-125
Hyperfine structure has beep observed in the electrically-detected mag
netic resonance signal from a silicon p-n junction diode. By comparing
the g value, hyperfine parameters, and bandgap energy level with know
n species having suitable abundances of isotopes with I = 1/2, the cen
ter is tentatively assigned as a platinum moiety, of presently undeter
mined structure. The observation indicates the usefulness of EDMR in t
he study of defects in ultrasmall Si devices, and raises certain quest
ions regarding the current theories of spin-dependent recombination.