Boron- and phosphorus-doped silicon germanium alloy nanocrystals - Nonthermal plasma synthesis and gas-phase thin film deposition

David J. Rowe; Uwe R. Kortshagen

doi:10.1063/1.4865158

Boron- and phosphorus-doped silicon germanium alloy nanocrystals - Nonthermal plasma synthesis and gas-phase thin film deposition

David J. Rowe, Uwe R. Kortshagen

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Alloyed silicon-germanium (SiGe) nanostructures are the topic of renewed research due to applications in modern optoelectronics and high-temperature thermoelectric materials. However, common techniques for producing nanostructured SiGe focus on bulk processing; therefore little is known of the physical properties of SiGe nanocrystals (NCs) synthesized from molecular precursors. In this letter, we synthesize and deposit thin films of doped SiGe NCs using a single, flow-through nonthermal plasma reactor and inertial impaction. Using x-ray and vibrational analysis, we show that the SiGe NC structure appears truly alloyed for Si_1-xGe_x for 0.16 < x < 0.24, and quantify the atomic dopant incorporation within the SiGe NC films.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	022104
Journal	APL Materials
Volume	2
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4865158
State	Published - Feb 2014

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