High-efficiency GaP (Zn–O) diodes have been observed, in some instances, to show a substantial and permanent increase in efficiency when subjected to a large forward bias. Experiments suggest that the effect is related to precipitation in the n and p layers. A model is presented which is able to account for most of the observations.
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