Inclusion of nanosized silicon grains in hydrogenated protocrystalline silicon multilayers and its relation to stability

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Myong, Seung Yeop ^a,d   Kwon, Seong Won ^a   Lim, Koeng Su ^a   Kondo, Michio ^b   Konagai, Makoto ^c  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c TIT ^*  (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN CONCENTRATION; METASTABILITY; NANOSIZED SILICON (NC-SI) GRAINS; PROTOCRYSTALLINE SILICON;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HYDROGENATION; MULTILAYERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SILICON;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33644560641     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2179130     Document Type: Article

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