TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhancement of metal-induced crystallization in Ge/Si/Ni/SiO2 layered structure
AU - Kanno, Hiroshi
AU - Kenjo, Atsushi
AU - Sadoh, Taizoh
AU - Miyao, Masanobu
N1 - Funding Information:
A part of this work was supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.
PY - 2004/3/22
Y1 - 2004/3/22
N2 - Influences of crystallinity in the precursor on metal-induced lateral crystallization of a-Si on SiO2 have been investigated. It was found that the growth velocity during low temperature annealing (approx. 550 °C) could be enhanced by the pre-annealing treatment (300̃600 °C). This result triggered off the idea of MILC in multi-layered structure, i.e. a-Ge/a-Si/Ni-pattern/SiO2. Utilization of this structure successfully enhanced MILC growth velocity. This is because crystal nucleation initiated in a-Ge modulated crystallinity in the precursor (a-Si). As a result, poly-Si with large grains (approx. 10 μm) was achieved in a short time annealing (<5 h). This will be a powerful tool to realize large poly-Si layers on insulating films for high efficiency solar cells and system-in-displays.
AB - Influences of crystallinity in the precursor on metal-induced lateral crystallization of a-Si on SiO2 have been investigated. It was found that the growth velocity during low temperature annealing (approx. 550 °C) could be enhanced by the pre-annealing treatment (300̃600 °C). This result triggered off the idea of MILC in multi-layered structure, i.e. a-Ge/a-Si/Ni-pattern/SiO2. Utilization of this structure successfully enhanced MILC growth velocity. This is because crystal nucleation initiated in a-Ge modulated crystallinity in the precursor (a-Si). As a result, poly-Si with large grains (approx. 10 μm) was achieved in a short time annealing (<5 h). This will be a powerful tool to realize large poly-Si layers on insulating films for high efficiency solar cells and system-in-displays.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tsf.2003.11.059
DO - 10.1016/j.tsf.2003.11.059
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:17644441875
SN - 0040-6090
VL - 451-452
SP - 324
EP - 327
JO - Thin Solid Films
JF - Thin Solid Films
T2 - Proceedings of Symposium D on Thin Film and Nano-Structured
Y2 - 10 June 2003 through 13 June 2003
ER -