Author:
Pihan Etienne,Slaoui Abdelilah,Maurice Claude
Abstract
AbstractWe investigated the structural quality of polysilicon films fabricated by the aluminium induced crystallization (AIC) of amorphous silicon on alumina substrates. We analyzed the overall crystallographic quality of the poly-Si films in terms of grain size distribution and grain orientation versus crystallization temperature. For these studies, we used extensively the orientation imaging micrograph (OIM) technique, a very powerful tool that allows elucidating the inner-grain structure, the grain boundaries, the grain orientation. From our analysis, we may conclude that the polysilicon films formed by AIC on alumina substrates have the following features: (i) for all investigated temperatures, most of the silicon grains have a deviation angle from (100) crystallographic orientation between 5 and 25°; (ii) increasing the annealing temperature tends to decrease the (100) preferred orientation; (iii) the angular boundary distribution revealed that the main defects are those that have been observed inside isolated dentrites, namely low angle boundaries (<2°) and coincident site lattice boundaries such as Σ3, Σ9 and Σ27.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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