Grain boundaries in semiconductors

CRM Grovenor - Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 1985 - iopscience.iop.org
This review presents the available experimental and theoretical understanding on the
structure and electronic properties of grain boundaries in semiconducting materials. High …

Lowering Charge Transport Barriers by Eliminating the Electric Double Layer Residues to Reconstruct Adjacent SnO2 Nanocrystals for High‐Efficiency Flexible …

L Zhang, H Ma, Z Ying, Q Dong, M Yuan… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The sol–gel method is efficient and cost‐effective for synthesizing SnO2 sol, wherein SnO2
nanocrystallites (NCs) are stabilized by electric double‐layer of solvated ions tightly bound …

A conduction model for semiconductor-grain-boundary-semiconductor barriers in polycrystalline-silicon films

NCC Lu, L Gerzberg, CY Lu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 1983 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A quantitative trapping model is introduced to describe the electrical properties of a
semiconductor-grain-boundary-semiconductor (SGBS) barrier in polysilicon films over a …

Theory of conduction in polysilicon: Drift-diffusion approach in crystalline-amorphous-crystalline semiconductor system—Part I: Small signal theory

DM Kim, AN Khondker, SS Ahmed… - IEEE Transactions on …, 1984 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A theory of conduction in polycrystalline silicon is presented. The present approach
fundamentally differs from previous theories in its treatment of the grain boundary. This …

Low-temperature germanium thin films on silicon

V Sorianello, L Colace, N Armani, F Rossi… - Optical Materials …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We discuss thermal evaporation of Germanium thin films as a suitable route to realizing near-
infrared detectors integrated on a Silicon platform. We study the structural properties of …

Dynamics of free carrier absorption and refractive index dispersion in Si and Si/PolySi Microrings

M Novarese, S Romero-Garcia… - IEEE Photonics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report pump-probe measurements of time resolved optical transmission spectra of Si
and Si/poly-Si microrings after high free carrier densities have been generated by two …

Electron tunneling through GaAs grain boundaries

CH Seager, GE Pike - Applied Physics Letters, 1982 - pubs.aip.org
Measurements of the zero-bias dc conductance Go and high frequency capacitance have
been made on GaAs bicrystals doped in the range of 4 X 1017-2 X 1018 cm-3. The …

Effect of grain size on the resistivity of polycrystalline material

DP Joshi, K Sen - Solar Cells, 1983 - Elsevier
In this paper the effects of grain size and doping concentration on the resistivity of
polycrystalline silicon are investigated. A new relation is presented for the resistivity of large …

Electron tunneling in heavily In‐doped polycrystalline CdS films

MV Garcia‐Cuenca, JL Morenza, J Esteve - Journal of applied physics, 1984 - pubs.aip.org
The electrical properties of heavily In-doped polycrystaUine CdS films have been studied as
a function of the doping level. The films were prepared by vacuum coevaporation of CdS …

Electrical properties of polycrystalline silicon and zinc oxide semiconductors

SN Singh, S Kumari, BK Das - Bulletin of Materials Science, 1984 - Springer
Polycrystalline silicon and zinc oxide ceramic are important electronic materials. The
electrical properties which determine the applications of polycrystalline silicon in integrated …