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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
It has been found that careful control of the laser power and scan speed will convert deposited aSi into continuous lines of uniformly crystallized silicon. Two solid phase “explosive” crystallization front velocities of 1000 cm/sec and 1400 cm/sec have been experimentally determined by matching the laser scan velocity with the runaway a–c phase boundary. If solid phase explosive crystallization is suppressed by pre-annealing, then a liquid assisted runaway crystallization velocity of 220 cm/sec is observed, as well as a continuous furnace-like crystallization process at 250 cm/sec.