High-resolution electron-microscopy studies on laser-annealed unsupported amorphous germanium films
- 15 June 1985
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 57 (12) , 5199-5204
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.335257
Abstract
The first results on high-resolution electron-microscope observations of unsupported amorphous germanium films, crystallized in situ by pulsed laser irradiation, are presented. They provide new information on structure and perfection of the as-grown crystals and on the morphology of the crystal-amorphous interface. It is shown that, after crystallization, amorphous regions can exist as inclusions among dendrites. The structure of the crystal-amorphous interface depends on its crystallographic orientation and is probably related to the degree of relaxation of the amorphous phase in its immediate vicinity.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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