Thermally induced structural transformations on polymorphous silicon

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2562-2567

  Rath, Chandana ^a,b   Farjas, Jordi ^a   Roura, P ^a   Kail, F ^c   Roca i Cabarrocas, P ^c   Bertran, E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES INTERFACES ET DES COUCHES MINCES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEHYDROGENATION; HYDROGENATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLYSILICON;

POLYMORPHOUS SILICON; STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 29144470118     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.2005.0322     Document Type: Article

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