We investigate the effect of thermal and structural disorder on the electronic structure of hydrogenated amorphous silicon, by measuring the shape of the optical absorption edge as a function of temperature and hydrogen content. The data is consistent with the idea that the thermal and structural disorder are additive, and suggests that disorder is the fundamental determining factor of the optical bandgap
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