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Metal Induced Grain Growth in Germanium and Silicon Thin Films.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2011
Abstract
Rapid grain growth has been induced in semiconductor films at relatively low temperatures by allowing contact with metals or metal/semiconductor eutectic melts. Mechanisms by which such enhanced grain growth can occur are discussed, and Diffusion Induced Boundary Migration has been shown to be a plausible explanation for the experimental observations from the Sn/Ge, Al/Ge and Au/Ge systems. Interface migration driven by the decrease in free energy during phase transformations however provides a better explanation of the large Si grains produced on heating the Au/Si samples.
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