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Properties of nano-crystalline silicon thin film fabricated by electron beam exposure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2013

Eun Hye Lee ,
Su Woong Lee ,
Young Ju Eom ,
Hae Na Won ,
Jin Jang ,
Byeong Yeon Moon  and
Kyu Chang Park
Eun Hye Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Information Display and Advanced Display Research Center, Kyung Hee University, Dongdaemoon-ku, Seoul 130-701, Korea
Su Woong Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Information Display and Advanced Display Research Center, Kyung Hee University, Dongdaemoon-ku, Seoul 130-701, Korea
Young Ju Eom
Affiliation:
Department of Information Display and Advanced Display Research Center, Kyung Hee University, Dongdaemoon-ku, Seoul 130-701, Korea
Hae Na Won
Affiliation:
Department of Information Display and Advanced Display Research Center, Kyung Hee University, Dongdaemoon-ku, Seoul 130-701, Korea
Jin Jang
Affiliation:
Department of Information Display and Advanced Display Research Center, Kyung Hee University, Dongdaemoon-ku, Seoul 130-701, Korea
Byeong Yeon Moon
Affiliation:
Department of Optometry, Kangwon National University, Samcheok, Gangwondo 245-907, Korea
Kyu Chang Park*
Affiliation:
Department of Information Display and Advanced Display Research Center, Kyung Hee University, Dongdaemoon-ku, Seoul 130-701, Korea
*
a e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

The crystallization of amorphous silicon thin films by electron beam exposure was studied. Amorphous silicon and silicon dioxide layers were deposited on glass substrate by PECVD at 360 °C. The optimization to crystallize 300 nm thick amorphous silicon film was carried out at a RF power of 300 W, DC voltage of 1500 V, Argon gas flow rate of 3 sccm and a distance between electron beam mesh and sample of 40 mm. High quality nano-crystalline silicon films with an activation energy of 0.47 eV from conductivity, a grain size of 15–45 nm from SEM and Raman crystalline volume fraction of 93.1% were fabricated. We expect that e-beam exposure will be applied to crystallization of amorphous silicon films.

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The European Physical Journal - Applied Physics , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , August 2013 , 20302
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© EDP Sciences, 2013

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