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Inert gas dilution and ion bombardment effects in room temperature (35 C) plasma deposition of a-Si:H

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OSTI ID:527663
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  1. North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States). Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) of a-Si:H with silane or silane and hydrogen at temperatures lower than 200 C commonly results in films with significant dihydride bonding and a high defect density. In this paper, the authors demonstrate the formation of monohydride dominant a-Si:H films using rf parallel plate PECVD at 35 C at deposition rates greater than 100 {angstrom}/min. In the as-deposited state, these films have low dark conductivity ({approximately}10{sup {minus}9}S/cm) and low photoconductivity. Annealing the films at 150 C caused the monohydride dominant films to show photo to dark conductivity ratio near 10{sup 5}. The results also indicate that an increase in monohydride fraction is not linked with a decrease in deposition rate.
OSTI ID:
527663
Report Number(s):
CONF-960401--; ISBN 1-55899-323-1
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English