Semiconductor optoelectronic fiber technology has seen rapid development in recent years
thanks to advancements in fabrication and post-processing techniques. Integrating the …

Flexible electronics offer a multitude of advantages, such as flexibility, lightweight property,
portability, and high durability. These unique properties allow for seamless applications to …

The highly active electrodes for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are vital for boosting
the overall efficiency of electrocatalytic water splitting to produce hydrogen fuel. Here we …

Solid phase crystallization (SPC) of amorphous silicon films grown by low pressure chemical
vapor deposition was conducted using a tube furnace in nitrogen ambient at temperatures …

Polycrystalline silicon core optical fibers have been fabricated by modified thermal
annealing of amorphous silicon chemically deposited at high pressure. The resulting fibers …

Orientation-controlled crystalline Si films on insulating substrates are strongly required to
achieve high-performance thin-film devices for next-generation electronics. We have …

High-power nanosecond-pulse-width laser processing is attracting increasing attention for
the manufacturing of low-cost high-performance silicon photovoltaic and microelectronic …

Finite element (FE) and cellular automaton (CA) models are used in order to predict the
microstructure of Poly-Crystalline Silicon (PC-Si) ingots during casting in a directional …

Large-grained, n+ n-type polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) films were obtained on alumina
substrates by combining the aluminium induced crystallization (AIC) process of amorphous …

The ability to crystallize thin amorphous Si layers into large grain Si can lead to significant
improvements in Si solar cells and thin-film transistors. Here we report on the effect of the …