Influence of cw laser scan speed in solid-phase crystallization of amorphous Si film on Si3N4/glass substrate
- 15 April 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 38 (8) , 613-615
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.92452
Abstract
Using optical transmission and transmission electron microscopies, structural features of scanned laser crystallized amorphous Si films on Si3N4/glass substrates have been investigated as a function of the laser scan speed. We have found the existence of a critical speed VSC≃30 cm/sec below which only the solid‐phase furnace crystallization mechanism occurs yielding fine‐grained Si films. For laser scan speeds higher than VSC, the crystallization mechanism is one of coherent and rapid crystallization, which has yielded Si films containing crystallites of dimensions up to 1×1 mm. For this regime, the velocity of the crystallization front is estimated to be as high as 1000 cm/sec.Keywords
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