Spectroscopic ellipsometry study of glow-discharge-deposited thin films of a-Ge:H
- 15 November 1986
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 60 (10) , 3724-3731
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.337582
Abstract
Thin films of a‐Ge:H with hydrogen contents ranging from 0 to 13 at. % prepared by the glow‐discharge process have been studied by spectroscopic ellipsometry. The resulting ellipsometric parameters have been analyzed by using standard n‐layer models, least‐squares regression analysis, and the Bruggeman effective media approximation theory. The results of the analyses show that the atomic percentage of hydrogen, in the amorphous binary alloy of Ge and H, can be represented by a void volume fraction in an effective medium approximation. These results are compared with those of infrared absorption spectroscopy. A good correlation between the percentage void determined from ellipsometry and the H content measured in these a‐Ge:H films is found.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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