An analysis of the formation of bulk amorphous silicon from the melt

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1825-1828

  Shao, Yan ^a,b   Spaepen, Frans ^a   Turnbull, David ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EATON CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHIZATION; LIQUID METALS; NUCLEATION; PHASE INTERFACES; SURFACE TENSION;

UNDERCOOLED LIQUIDS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 0032114984     PISSN: 10735623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11661-998-0006-4     Document Type: Article

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