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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 115, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4873958
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- Graduate School of the German Research Foundation (DFG) [GRK1621]
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Cathodoluminescence (CL) and electron beam induced current (EBIC) measurements were used to investigate the optical behavior and electrical activity of grain boundaries (GBs) in coarsely grained silicon. Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) was applied for a comprehensive characterization of the structural properties of the high angle and low angle GBs (HAGBs and LAGBs) in the sample. It was found that not only the EBIC but also the panchromatic (pan) CL contrast of Sigma 3 HAGBs strongly depends on the hkl-type of the boundary plane. At room temperature coherent Sigma 3 GBs exhibit no significant contrast in the CL or EBIC images, whereas at low temperatures the pan-CL contrast is strong. For incoherent Sigma 3 GBs, a strong pan-CL and EBIC contrast was observed in the entire temperature range. Only on a LAGB (misorientation angle 4.5 degrees) CL investigations at low temperatures revealed a line with peak position at about (0.82 +/- 0.01) eV, usually related to the dislocation associated D1 transition. Cross-correlation EBSD was applied to analyze the strain fields of Sigma 3 HAGBs as well as of the LAGB. All the components of the local strain tensors were quantitatively determined. The relationship between the extension of the strain field at the LAGB and the spatial D1 intensity distribution is discussed. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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