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Hydrogen Diffusion Duringc Amorphous Silicon Growth and Its Consequences for the Transition to Nanocrystalline Growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2011

Richard S. Crandall  and
Jack Thiesen
Richard S. Crandall
Affiliation:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401
Jack Thiesen
Affiliation:
Technology Applications, Boulder, CO 80301
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Abstract

Using a closed-form, time-dependent solution to the partial differential equation representing hydrogen diffusion in the frame of a growing silicon film we obtain considerable insight into processes controlled by mobile H in silicon. We apply this insight to quantitatively explain the limiting thickness for Si homoepitaxy and explain by analogy the incubation thickness before the transition from amorphous to nanocrystalline silicon growth.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 664: Symposium A – Amorphous and Heterogeneous Silicon-Based Films-2001 , 2001 , A27.2.1
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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