Structural properties of a-Si films and their effect on aluminum induced crystallization

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2015-10-01
Tankut, Aydin
Karaman, Mehmet
Ozkol, Engin
Canlı, Sedat
Turan, Raşit
In this paper, we report the influence of the structural properties of amorphous silicon (a-Si) on its subsequent crystallization behavior via the aluminum induced crystallization (AIC) method. Two distinct a-Si deposition techniques, electron beam evaporation and plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD), are compared for their effect on the overall AIC kinetics as well as the properties of the final poly-crystalline (poly-Si) silicon film. Raman and FTIR spectroscopy results indicate that the PECVD grown a-Si films has higher intermediate-range order, which is enhanced for increased hydrogen dilution during deposition. With increasing intermediate-range order of the a-Si, the rate of AIC is diminished, leading larger poly-Si grain size. (C) 2015 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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A. Tankut, M. Karaman, E. Ozkol, S. Canlı, and R. Turan, “Structural properties of a-Si films and their effect on aluminum induced crystallization,” AIP Advances, pp. 0–0, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/39147.