Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
A swept line-source electron beam has been used to study unseeded Si-on-insulator crystallization at beam scan speeds of 150–1500 cm/s. For a particular sample configuration a maximum linear crystallization velocity of ~ 350 cm/s was observed. At higher sweep speeds, competing nucleation occurred at intervals across the film. Both the limit in crystallization velocity and the intervals between nucleation are tentatively explained by a simple model.
This work performed at Sandia National Laboratories supported by the U. S. Department of Energy under contract number DE-ACO4-76DP00789. Mat. Res.