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Effect of Filament Bias on the Properties of Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Silicon from Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

H.N. Wanka ,
R. Brüggemann ,
C. Köhler ,
I. Zrinscak  and
M.B. Schubert
H.N. Wanka
Affiliation:
Institut für Physikalische Elektronik, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 47, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
R. Brüggemann
Affiliation:
Institut für Physikalische Elektronik, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 47, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
C. Köhler
Affiliation:
Institut für Physikalische Elektronik, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 47, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
I. Zrinscak
Affiliation:
Institut für Physikalische Elektronik, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 47, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
M.B. Schubert
Affiliation:
Institut für Physikalische Elektronik, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 47, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Abstract

At the high temperatures during hot-wire assisted chemical vapor deposition, ther- mal emission of electrons from the filament occurs. We studied the effect of filament bias, and thus the filament-to-substrate current, on the structural, electronic and optical properties of amorphous and nanocrystalline silicon deposited by this method. The current drawn by the substrate can be varied by many orders of magnitude as thermally emitted electrons are increasingly collected with applied bias voltage. The crystallinity of the nanocrystalline samples is not affected by the bias voltage. The defect density in amorphous silicon is affected by the electron bombardment at high bias voltage only, for which we also find a significant reduction in the mobility-lifetime product from steady-state photoconductivity.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 507: Symposium A – Amorphous & Microcrystalline Silicon Technology 1998 , 1998 , 915
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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