Transmission Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Diffraction Analysis of Aluminum-Induced Crystallization of Amorphous Silicon in α-Si:H/Al and Al/α-Si:H Structures
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Solid phase crystallization of plasma-enhanced chemical-vapor-deposited (PECVD) amorphous silicon (α-Si:H) in α-Si:H/Al and Al/α-Si:H structures has been investigated using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Radiative heating has been used to anneal films deposited on carbon-coated nickel (Ni) grids at temperatures between 200 and 400°C for TEM studies. α-Si:H films were deposited on c-Si substrates using high vacuum (HV) PECVD for the XRD studies. TEM studies show that crystallization of α-Si:H occurs at 200°C when Al film is deposited on top of the α-Si:H film. Similar behavior was observed in the XRD studies. In the case of α-Si:H deposited on top of Al films, the crystallization could not be observed at 400°C by TEM and even up to 500°C as seen by XRD.
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OpenAlex topics: Thin-Film Transistor Technologies · Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence · Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies
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