Volume no :2, Issue no: 1, July (2010)

POINT DEFECTS IN AMORPHOUS AND NANOCRYSTALLINE FLUORINATED SILICON FILMS

Author's: D. Milovzorov
Pages: [41] - [59]
Received Date: April 30, 2010
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Abstract

Nanocrystalline fluorinated silicon films are studied by using Raman spectroscopy, electron paramagnetic resonance, Fourier-transformed infrared spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, nonlinear laser spectroscopy, and photoluminescence. Electrical properties of nanocrystalline silicon and amorphous silicon films were compared. The field-assisted migration of point defects is dramatic for durability and reproducibility properties of devices based on amorphous silicon. The conductivity properties are stable for nanocrystalline silicon film by electric field.

Keywords

nanocrystalline silicon, fluorinated silicon films, point defects, silicon bonds, paramagnetic centers, current-voltage and resistance-voltage characteristics, Raman spectral characteristics.