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The structure of amorphous semiconductors has become the subject of intense study in recent years. In this paper, the models, that have been constructed and applied to represent the structures, have been briefly reviewed. Details of the construction of continuous random network (CRN) models have been presented and a comparative study of the microcrystallite model and the random network model has been made in the light of their recent applications.
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Nag, J., Sen Gupta, S.P. Amorphous semiconductors: Structural models. Bull. Mater. Sci. 4, 375–402 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02748738
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