A systematic study of the thermally induced reaction of 20 transition metals (Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb,
Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Mn, Re, Fe, Ru, Co, Rh, Ir, Ni, Pd, Pt, and Cu) with Ge substrates was carried …

Silicides and germanides are compounds consisting of a metal and silicon or germanium. In
the microelectronics industry, silicides are the material of choice for contacting silicon based …

The solid-state reaction between a 30-nm-thick Ni film and Ge substrates was investigated
using in situ x-ray diffraction, diffuse light scattering, and four-point probe electrical …

A metastable phase α-FeSi 2 was epitaxially stabilized on a silicon substrate using pulsed
laser deposition. Nonmetallic and ferromagnetic behaviors are tailored on α-FeSi 2 (111) …

A pure crystallogeometrical approach is proposed for predicting orientation relationships,
habit planes and atomic structures of the interfaces between phases, which is applicable to …

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem establishes a basis for mapping the exact energy functional
to a model one provided that their charge densities coincide. We suggest to use a mapping …

Abstract Iron disilicide (α-FeSi 2) is one of the promising materials for building ohmic
contacts over silicon substrates. Complex approaches have been used to synthesize this …

It had been shown already earlier by X-ray microanalysis that, in positions of defect-induced
junction breakdown in industrial multicrystalline (mc) silicon solar cells, iron-containing …

The M n+ 1 AX n (MAX) phases are ternary compounds comprising alternating layers of a
transition metal carbide or nitride and a third “A-group” element. The effect of substrate …

Synchrotron radiation was used to study the texture of poly-crystalline NiSi films that were
formed by a solid state reaction between a 30 nm Ni film and Si (001),(111), and (110) …