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JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 158, Issue 1, Pages H25-H29Publisher
ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC
DOI: 10.1149/1.3504217
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We investigated the effect of infrared continous wave laser irradiation on amorphous silicon layers deposited by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Crystallization occurs via spontaneous nucleation at high temperature or by layer melting and solidification. Amorphous layers of thickness in the range 50-1000 nm have been crystallized up to 80% of their volume. We observed a two-dimensional growth when the thickness is 50 nm, whereas a three-dimensional growth occurs for thicker layers with an average grain size of < 30 nm, weakly dependent on the thickness. We also found that hydrogen desorption occurs without layer degradation, regardless of the layer thickness. The coalescence of hydrogen before outdiffusion produces voids only for layers thicker than 200 nm, whose presence reduces the average grain size by a factor of 2-3. (c) 2010 The Electrochemical Society. [DOI: 10.1149/1.3504217] All rights reserved.
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