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The Precipitation of Nickel and Copper at Grain Boundaries in Silicon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

H. J. Möller ,
U. Jendrich ,
L. Huang  and
A. Foitzik
H. J. Möller
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106
U. Jendrich
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106
L. Huang
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106
A. Foitzik
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106
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Abstract

The precipitation of copper and nickel at grain boundaries in cast polycrystalline silicon is investigated. The metals are diffused into the specimens from a surface source between 800 – 1000 °C and the precipitation after cooling is studied by TEM. Copper precipitates in form of colonies containing hundreds of particles with a size between 5–6 nm. In the grain boundary they nucleate preferentially at dislocations and steps. The distribution and size of the precipitates depend on the cooling rate after the diffusion. Nickel forms only few large (micrometer size) plate-like or three dimensional precipitates at and near grain boundaries. The main features of the results and the differences between the two elements are explained under the assumption that the precipitation requires the transport of native point defects.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 209: Symposium K – Defects in Materials , 1990 , 409
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1991

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