Formation of location-controlled crystalline islands using substrate-embedded seeds in excimer-laser crystallization of silicon films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1819-1821

  Van Der Wilt, Paul Ch ^a   Van Dijk, B D ^a   Bertens, G J ^a   Ishihara, R ^a   Beenakker, C I M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0035903422     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1402641     Document Type: Article

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