Surface and interface engineering of silicon‐based anode materials for lithium‐ion batteries

W Luo, X Chen, Y Xia, M Chen, L Wang… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… Then, a conformal coating of amorphous silicon on CuO nanowires was fulfilled via a …
diffused out to alloy with the amorphous silicon shell to produce the hollow Si-Cu alloy nanotubes (…

Heterojunctions based on amorphous silicon: a versatile surface engineering strategy to tune peak position of redox monolayers on photoelectrodes

VR Goncales, J Lian, S Gautam… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
… the amorphous silicon|redox SAM interface was … amorphous silicon was deposited. The E
1/2 values were −0.261 V for n + Si(100)|aSi, + 0.057 V for ITO|aSi, and +0.204 V for p + Si(100)…

Recent progress in understanding the properties of the amorphous silicon/crystalline silicon interface

JP Kleider, J Alvarez, R Brüggemann… - … status solidi (a), 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… Thus, to model the a-Si:H/c-Si interface, we have considered a thin defective c-Si layer
with a volume density of states N it (E). The surface defect density D it is then given by …

Interface engineering in amorphous silicon thin-films using ultra-thin TiO2 interlayers and its effect on Li-ion storage

JM Chethodil, B Gangaja, S Nair… - … and Interfaces, 2020 - Elsevier
Interfaces play a crucial role in Coulombic efficiency and cycling stability hence interfaces
engineering is inevitable to improve performance of silicon. In the present work, ultra-thin TiO …

Computational study on interfaces and interface defects of amorphous silica and silicon

P Li, Y Song, X Zuo - physica status solidi (RRL)–Rapid …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… In this review, computational studies on the amorphous SiO 2 /Si interface and interface
defects are summarized, including the modeling of the interface, the main interface defects, and …

Interplay of amorphous silicon disorder and hydrogen content with interface defects in amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunctions

TF Schulze, HN Beushausen, C Leendertz… - Applied Physics …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
… We analyze the dependence of the interface defect density D it in amorphous/crystalline
silicon (a-Si:H/c-Si) heterojunctions on the microscopic properties of ultrathin (10 nm) undoped a…

Development, characterization and interface engineering of films for enhanced amorphous silicon solar cell performance

P Joshi, S Steen, K Sivakumar, WK Yang… - 2010 35th IEEE …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… ) measurements obtained on amorphous, partial crystalline and micro-crystalline Si films are
… grown amorphous Si films have a band gap of ~ 1.7eV, whereas partial crystalline Si films …

Creation of near-interface defects in hydrogenated amorphous silicon-silicon nitride heterojunctions: The role of hydrogen

WB Jackson, MD Moyer - Physical Review B, 1987 - APS
… Positive stress, on the other hand, must primarily place charge at midgap or lowerin the
amorphous silicon near enough to the interface that the charge state changes during the light IV …

Interface modification effect between p-type a-SiC: H and ZnO: Al in pin amorphous silicon solar cells

S Baek, JC Lee, YJ Lee, SS Iftiquar, Y Kim… - Nanoscale research …, 2012 - Springer
… carbide [a-SiC:H] or hydrogenated amorphous silicon [a-Si:H] window layer, the use of the
… In this study, interface engineering is carried out at the AZO and p-type a-SiC:H interface to …

Ab Initio Investigation of Charge Trapping Across the Crystalline-Amorphous- Interface

YY Liu, F Zheng, X Jiang, JW Luo, SS Li, LW Wang - Physical Review Applied, 2019 - APS
… For these reasons, we have built a new structure with only one c-Si/a-SiO2 interface, and
open ends in the other c-Si interface and a-SiO2 interface, as shown in Fig. 1. Such an open-…