Optical bandgap of ultra-thin amorphous silicon films deposited on crystalline silicon by PECVD

An optical study based on spectroscopic ellipsometry, performed on ultrathin hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) layers, is presented in this work. Ultrathin layers of intrinsic amorphous silicon have been deposited on n-type mono-crystalline silicon (c-Si) wafers by plasma enhanced chemical vap...

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Main Authors: Yaser Abdulraheem, Ivan Gordon, Twan Bearda, Hosny Meddeb, Jozef Poortmans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2014-05-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4879807