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Download or read book A Calorimetric Investigation of the Metal-induced Crystallization of Free-standing Amorpous Silicon Thin Films written by Taylor Nicole Grueser and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crystalline silicon is a key component in many modern technologies, but can be difficult to produce. Ideally, thin films of crystalline silicon would be created by heating amorphous silicon to the point of crystallization (800 °C), but at this high temperature many low-cost substrates, such as glass and plastics, melt. As such, methods to lower the crystallization temperature of amorphous silicon are of great interest in materials research. This thesis looks at one such method, Metal-Induced Crystallization (MIC), in which contact with a metal induces crystallization of amorphous silicon at much lower temperatures. Specifically, we examine aluminum and beryllium induced crystallization, and investigate the variables within MIC that affect the crystallization temperature..