Evolution of a-Si: H to nc-Si: H transition of hydrogenated silicon films deposited by trichlorosilane using principle component analysis of optical emission …

SH Wang, HE Chang, CC Lee, YK Fuh, TT Li - Materials Chemistry and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) has been used for direct
production of wafer-equivalent quality silicon thin film solar cells, includes the nc-Si: H …

Investigation structural heterogeneities in hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon thin films from argon-diluted silane dusty plasma PECVD

R Amrani, F Lekoui, F Pichot, K Annou, P Abboud… - Vacuum, 2024 - Elsevier
This study presents a novel approach for achieving a high deposition rate of nanocrystalline
hydrogenated silicon (nc-Si: H) thin films using dusty plasma, eliminating the need for …

High-performance hydrogenated amorphous silicon deposited by ion-beam sputtering for gravitational-wave detectors

S Fang, Z Lu, X Ji, H Jiao, X Cheng, Z Wang, J Zhang - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Amorphous silicon (a-Si) is a promising material with a high refractive index that shows great
potential in the development of low-thermal-noise, highly reflective coatings for gravitational …

[PDF][PDF] Amorphous-nanocrystalline transition in silicon thin films obtained by argon diluted silane PECVD

R Amrani, F Pichot, L Chahed… - … Structure Theory and …, 2012 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
ABSTRACT The Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) method is widely
used compared to other methods to deposit hydrogenated silicon Si: H. In this work, a …

Effect of Substrate Temperature on (Micro/Nano) Structure of a-SiC: H Thin Films Deposited by Radio-Frequency Magnetron Sputtering.

M Daouahi, N Rekik - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2012 - ACS Publications
The nature of the hydrogen bonds and their influence on film (micro/nano) structure has
been investigated as a function of substrate temperature TS (200–500° C) in hydrogenated …

Hydrogen effect on structural and optical properties of in-situ fabricated nc-Si: H prepared by facing targets sputtering

L Meng, H Cheng, S Liu, Y Wu, D Li, J Fu… - Journal of Non …, 2022 - Elsevier
We report high-quality hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si: H) thin films were
prepared by facing targets sputtering (FTS) in the environment of Ar and H 2 mixture gases …

Tailoring of microstructure in hydrogenated nanocrystalline Si thin films by ICP-assisted RF magnetron sputtering

KS Shin, BB Sahu, M Kumar… - Journal of Physics D …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Utilizing plasma-assisted deposition by combining an RF magnetron and an inductively
coupled plasma (ICP) source it is possible to fabricate highly crystallized nc-Si: H films at a …

Optical and structural proprieties of nc-Si: H prepared by argon diluted silane PECVD

R Amrani, F Pichot, J Podlecki, A Foucaran… - Journal of non …, 2012 - Elsevier
Using argon as a diluent of Silane, hydrogenated amorphous and nanorocrystalline silicon
films Si: H were prepared by radio-frequency (13.56 MHz) plasma enhanced chemical vapor …

Well dispersed silicon nanospheres synthesized by RF thermal plasma treatment and their high thermal conductivity and dielectric constant in polymer …

G Hou, B Cheng, F Ding, M Yao, Y Cao, P Hu, R Ma… - Rsc Advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
In this paper, well dispersed Si nanospheres (Si-NSs) were successfully synthesized via a
simple and efficient method by using radio-frequency (RF) thermal plasma treatment …

Low-temperature deposition of µc-Si: H thin films by a low-frequency inductively coupled plasma for photovoltaic applications

DY Wei, SQ Xiao, SY Huang, CS Chan… - Journal of Physics D …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Low-temperature depositions of Si films from hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) to
highly crystallized hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon (µc-Si: H) were realized by the low …