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Study of Microvoids in High-Rate a-Si:H Using Positron Annihilation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

X. Zou ,
D. P. Webb ,
S. H. Lin ,
Y. W. Lam ,
Y. C. Chan ,
Y. F. Hu ,
C. D. Beling  and
S. Fung
X. Zou
Affiliation:
Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
D. P. Webb
Affiliation:
Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
S. H. Lin
Affiliation:
Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Y. W. Lam
Affiliation:
Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Y. C. Chan
Affiliation:
Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Y. F. Hu
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
C. D. Beling
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
S. Fung
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
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Abstract

In this paper, we have carried out the positron annihilation measurement on high-rate and low-rate a-Si:H thin films deposited by PECVD. By means of the slow positron beam Doppler-broadening technique, the depth profiles of microvoids in a-Si:H have been determined. We have also studied the vacancy-type defect in the surface region in high-rate grown a-Si:H, making comparison between high-rate and low-rate a-Si:H. By plotting S and W parameters in the (S, W) plane, we have shown that the vacancies in all of the high-rate and low-rate deposited intrinsic samples, and in differently doped low-rate samples are of the same nature.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 467: Symposium A – Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon Technology - 1997 , 1997 , 525
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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