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Thin A-SiOxHyAlloy Films Showing Visible Luminescence Prepared by DC-Magnetron Sputtering with Water Vapor as Oxygen Source

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1993

M. Zacharias ,
B. Garke ,
A. Panckow ,
H. Freistedt  and
T. DrÜSedau
M. Zacharias
Affiliation:
Inst. Exper. Physik,Tech. Univ. "Otto von Guericke", O-3010 Magdeburg , Germany
B. Garke
Affiliation:
Inst. Exper. Physik,Tech. Univ. "Otto von Guericke", O-3010 Magdeburg , Germany
A. Panckow
Affiliation:
Inst. Exper. Physik,Tech. Univ. "Otto von Guericke", O-3010 Magdeburg , Germany
H. Freistedt
Affiliation:
Inst. Exper. Physik,Tech. Univ. "Otto von Guericke", O-3010 Magdeburg , Germany
T. DrÜSedau
Affiliation:
Inst. Exper. Physik,Tech. Univ. "Otto von Guericke", O-3010 Magdeburg , Germany Feodor Lynen-Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt - Fundation, Harvard University, Division of Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Abstract

Thin films of non stochiometric hydrogenated amorphous silicon oxide (a-SiOxHy.) with x=0.09...1.14, y=0.06...0.20 were prepared by dc-magnetron sputtering from a crystalline silicon target within an argon-hydrogen-water vapor atmosphere. The film properties were investigated by infrared and optical spectroscopy, Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy (RBS) and elastic recoil detection (ERD), luminescence and activated conductivity. Absorption bands related to either silicon-hydrogen or silicon-oxygen vibration modes were observed at 650, 800, 870 and 1000cm-1. Above a water pressure of 0.06Pa, the oxygen content saturates at about 50 at %. The static refractive index n ∞ the optical Tauc gap ETand the logarithmic dark conductivity at room temperature show a linear dependence on the films' oxygen content. Films prepared under certain conditions show visible photoluminescence.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 297: Symposium A – Amorphous Silicon Technology - 1993 , 1993 , 753
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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