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Low pressure chemical vapour deposition amorphous silicon behaviour under annealing

Abstract

Four types of amorphous silicon materials are grown in a low pressure chemical vapour deposition (LPCVD) system and their differences in colour, adherence, smoothness, as well as crystallinity of the derived materials are investigated as a function of annealing temperature. Experimental results indicate that amorphous silicon growth can actually occur, either through an heterogeneous mechanism on the substrate surface or through homogeneous nucleation in the vapour phase. In general, surface grown amorphous silicon renders high quality polysilicon after annealing. This is not the case for amorphous silicon nucleated in the vapour phase, which produces poor quality polysilicon under similar temperature conditions. Vier Arten von amorphem Siliziummaterial werden in einem Niederdruck-CVD (LPCVD)-System hergestellt und ihre Unterschiede sowohl in Farbe, Haftfestigkeit, Glattheit als auch hinsichtlich ihrer Kristallinizität als Funktion der Temperungstemperatur untersucht. Die experimentellen Ergebnisse zeigen, daß Wachstum von amorphem Silizium tatsächlich auftreten kann, entweder über einen heterogenen Mechanismus auf der Substratoberfläche oder über eine homogene Keimbildung in der Dampfphase. Im allgemeinen ergibt oberflächengewachsenes amorphes Silizium nach Temperung Hochqualitätspolysilizium. Dies ist nicht der Fall für amorphes Silizium mit Keimbildung in der Dampfphase, das Polysilizium mit geringer Qualität unter ähnlichen Temperaturbedingungen liefert. © 1988

Keywords:
Annealing (glass) Amorphous solid Chemical vapor deposition Silicon Crystallinity Nucleation Amorphous silicon Materials science Chemical engineering Homogeneous Chemistry Mineralogy Nanotechnology Composite material Crystalline silicon Crystallography Metallurgy Thermodynamics Organic chemistry Physics

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