Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics, 20 (4), P. 396-405 (2017).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/spqeo20.04.396
Tin-induced crystallization of amorphous silicon
assisted by a pulsed laser irradiation
1Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
46, prospect Nauky, 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine
Abstract. The process of tin-induced crystallization of amorphous silicon under the influence of different types of laser irradiation was investigated using the method of Raman scattering by thin-film Si-Sn-Si structures. The dependences of the size and concentration of Si nanocrystals on the power of laser radiation was experimentally evaluated and analyzed. As sources of excitation pulse laser radiation with the pulses duration equal to 20 ns and 150 s and wavelengths equal to 535 and 1070 nm was used. The possibility of efficient tin-induced transformation of silicon from amorphous phase to crystalline one in the 200-nm thick layers of a-Si under the action of laser pulses with duration equal to 20 ns was shown. The spatial and temporal distributions of laser induced temperature rise was calculated to interpret experimental results.
Keywords: thin film, metal-induced crystallization, pulsed laser treatment.
V.B. Neimash1, V.V. Melnyk1, L.L. Fedorenko2, P.Ye. Shepeliavyi2,a, V.V. Strelchuk2, A.S. Nikolayenko2,
M.V. Isaiev3, A.G. Kuzmich3
2Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
45, prospect Nauky, 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine
3Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of Physics,
60, Volodymyrska str., 01601 Kyiv, Ukraine
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Electronic addresses: pshepeliavyi@gmail.com
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