Heterogeneity in hydrogenated silicon: Evidence for intermediately ordered chainlike objects

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2001, Pages

  Tsu, David V ^a   Chao, Benjamin S ^a   Ovshinsky, Stanford R ^a   Jones, Scott J ^a   Yang, Jeffrey ^b   Guha, Subhendu ^b   Tsu, Raphael ^c  

^a Energy Conversion Devices Inc   (United States)

^b United Solar Systems Corp   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; DENSITY; FILM; HYDROGENATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0034906205     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.63.125338     Document Type: Article

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