NEW CRYSTALLINE-STRUCTURE FOR NANOMETER-SIZED GE MICROCRYSTALLITES PREPARED BY PLASMA-ENHANCED CHEMICAL-VAPOR-DEPOSITION

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JIANG, JG
CHEN, KJ
HUANG, XF
LI, ZF
FENG, DU
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[1] SOUTHEAST UNIV,CTR MICROELECTR,NANJING 210018,PEOPLES R CHINA
[2] CTR ADV STUDIES SCI & TECHNOL MICROSTRUCT,NANJING 210093,PEOPLES R CHINA
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10.1063/1.112848
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Crystallized Ge films have been produced in a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition system by the decomposition of H-2-diluted GeH4 gas source while using the H-2 plasma treatment. Structural analyses of the films using x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy techniques revealed a new crystalline structure in the Ge microcrystallites with a diameter of about 5 nm, which is different from the normal diamond structure of crystalline Ge. This new nanometer crystalline structure has been explained to be a metastable nanometer-sized atomic configuration formed in the film deposition process. (C) 1994 American Institute of Physics.
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