1. Over-coordination and order in hydrogenated nanostructured silicon thin films: their influence on strain and electronic properties
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Patrice Mélinon, Christophe Longeaud, Anne-Marie Flank, P. Roca i Cabarrocas, Bruno Masenelli, S. Vignoli, Laboratoire de génie électrique de Paris ( LGEP ), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -SUPELEC-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire de génie électrique de Paris (LGEP), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité - SUPELEC (FRANCE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Amorphous silicon ,Materials science ,Absorption spectroscopy ,Silicon ,Coordination number ,Analytical chemistry ,chemistry.chemical_element ,02 engineering and technology ,Paracrystalline ,01 natural sciences ,Condensed Matter::Materials Science ,symbols.namesake ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0103 physical sciences ,[CHIM]Chemical Sciences ,General Materials Science ,010306 general physics ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Photoconductivity ,Nanocrystalline silicon ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,chemistry ,symbols ,0210 nano-technology ,Raman spectroscopy - Abstract
International audience; A set of hydrogenated nanostructured silicon films consisting of Si nanoparticles with a dense phase embedded in an amorphous matrix are analysed by means of several spectroscopic tools. Medium and short range order are determined by Raman spectroscopy and the average coordination versus the hydrogen content is measured from x-ray absorption spectroscopy. The improvement of transport properties such as the normalized photoconductivity with respect to that of hydrogenated amorphous silicon is explained by an inhomogeneous distribution of constraints in the samples. Our results on the order at different scales agree well with the paracrystalline model and suggest a well relaxed host matrix.
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- 2005
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