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Increase of Hydrogen-Radical Density and Improvement of The Crystalline Volume Fraction of Microcrystalline Silicon Films Prepared by Hot-Wire Assisted Pecvd Method
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2011
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Higher crystalline Si volume fractions in hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon ( µc-Si:H) films have been achieved by the hot-wire assisted plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (HWA-PECVD) method compared with those in films by conventional PECVD. µc-Si:H films can also be prepared by HWA-PECVD under typical conditions used for preparing hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) films by PECVD, in which the hydrogen-dilution ratio (H2 / SiH4) is ∼ 10. The hot wire seems to produce hydrogen radicals. As a result, the HWA- PECVD method can control hydrogen-radical densities in the RF plasma, and this method can also control the ratio of hydrogen coverage at the surface of the film.
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