Dominant trap energy levels in silicon are extracted from the temperature dependence of minority carrier recombination lifetime, observed through laser microwave photoconductive decay. A small correction is made to the Arrhenius plot by incorporating the weakly temperature-dependent term in the recombination lifetime expression, hitherto ignored. The new extraction technique is simple to implement and the results are in good agreement with published data.
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