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Structural and Electrical Characterization of B-Doped Microcrystalline Silicon thin Films
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011
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In this paper we present the results for boron-doped microcrystalline silicon deposited at low temperature (230°C) by PECVD method. The structural and electrical properties are investigated as a function of boron concentrations using Raman, dark conductivity, hydrogen effusion and Hall effect measurements. The results show that the incorporation of boron induced an amorphization in the μc-Si:H films structure. A structural change due to boron incorporation is also accompanied by a change in hydrogen bonding environment. High conductive film of our boron-doped μc-Si:H films is attained at boron concentration 2000 ppm which consists nearly the same fraction of crystalline and amorphous phase (XC ~55 %).
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