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Kinetics Of Hydrogen Evolution And Crystallization In Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Films Studied By Thermal Analysis And Raman Scattering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Nagarajan Sridhar ,
D. D. L. Chung ,
W. A. Anderson ,
W. Y. Yu ,
L. P. Fu  and
A. Petrou
Nagarajan Sridhar
Affiliation:
Center for Electronic and Electro-Optic Materials, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY 14260–4400, and J. Coleman, Plasma Physics Corp., P. O. Box 548, Locust Valley, NY 11650.
D. D. L. Chung
Affiliation:
Center for Electronic and Electro-Optic Materials, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY 14260–4400, and J. Coleman, Plasma Physics Corp., P. O. Box 548, Locust Valley, NY 11650.
W. A. Anderson
Affiliation:
Center for Electronic and Electro-Optic Materials, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY 14260–4400, and J. Coleman, Plasma Physics Corp., P. O. Box 548, Locust Valley, NY 11650.
W. Y. Yu
Affiliation:
Center for Electronic and Electro-Optic Materials, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY 14260–4400, and J. Coleman, Plasma Physics Corp., P. O. Box 548, Locust Valley, NY 11650.
L. P. Fu
Affiliation:
Center for Electronic and Electro-Optic Materials, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY 14260–4400, and J. Coleman, Plasma Physics Corp., P. O. Box 548, Locust Valley, NY 11650.
A. Petrou
Affiliation:
Center for Electronic and Electro-Optic Materials, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY 14260–4400, and J. Coleman, Plasma Physics Corp., P. O. Box 548, Locust Valley, NY 11650.
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Abstract

We observed the processes of hydrogen evolution and crystallization in hydrogenated Amorphous silicon 0.5–7 μm thick films (deposited by dc glow discharge on Molybdenum) by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Raman scattering and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Investigation was made as a function of doping, deposition temperature and film thickness. For all the films, an endothermic DSC peak was observed at 694 °C (onset). That this peak was at least partly due to hydrogen evolution was shown by TGA, which showed weight loss beginning at 694 °C, and by evolved gas analysis, which showed hydrogen evolution at 694 °C. This temperature (658–704 °C) increased with increasing heating rate (5–30 °C/min). Doping reduced this temperature from 694 to 625 °C for boron doping and to 675 °C for phosphorous doping. Hydrogen evolution kinetics and FTIR results suggest that the silicon-hydrogen bonding in the intrinsic film was a mixture of SiH and S1H2, and was predominantly SiH in the phosphorous doped films and SiH2 in the boron doped films. Crystallization was independent of silicon-hydrogen bonding in the as-deposited Amorphous silicon film. It was bulk (not interface) induced. No exothermic DSC peak accompanied the crystallization. The film deposition temperature had little effect on the DSC result, but crystallization was enhanced by a higher deposition temperature.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 321: Symposium E – Crystallization and Related Phenomena in Amorphous Materials—Ceramics, Metals, Polymers, and Semiconductors , 1993 , 713
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1994

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