Electron beam induced current (EBIC) investigations of plastically deformed silicon in the
temperature range from 90 K to 300 K were carried out. It is found that the dislocation
trails left behind moving dislocations are the main defects revealed by the EBIC in crystals
deformed in clean conditions. With an increase of the contamination level, the dislocation
contrast in p-type samples increases. It is observed that the EBIC contrasts of
both dislocations and dislocation trails increase with cooling in p-type silicon,
while in n-type samples the EBIC contrasts exhibit the opposite trends for both
defects.