ISBN: 3-540-66111-5
TITLE: Semiconducting Silicides
AUTHOR: Borisenko, Victor E.
TOC:

Nomenclature XI
1 General Material Aspects 1
Victor E. Borisenko, Andrew B. Filonov
1.1 Crystalline Structure and Mechanical Properties 2
1.2 Thermodynamics of Silicidation 28
1.3 Kinetics of Silicidation 48
1.4 Thermal Oxidation of Silicides 74
2 Thin Film Silicide Formation 83
Victor E. Borisenko
2.1 Silicides and Silicon Epitaxial Relationships 85
2.2 Diffusion Synthesis 108
2.3 Ion Beam Synthesis 136
2.4 Atomic and Molecular Deposition 143
2.5 General Comments on Silicide Formation Techniques 157
3 Crystal Growth 160
Gnter Behr
3.1 Methods of Crystal Growth and Material Problems 160
3.2 Crystal Growth by Chemical Vapor Transport Reactions 175
3.3 Crystal Growth from the Flux 183
3.4 Crystal Growth from the Melt 187
3.5 Summary 202
4 Fundamental Electronic and Optical Properties 205
Victor L. Shaposhnikov, Victor E. Borisenko, Horst Lange
4.1 Basic Relationships 205
4.2 Electronic Band Structure 212
4.3 Interband Optical Spectra 239
4.4 Light Emission 254
4.5 Infrared Optical Response and Raman Scattering 257
4.6 Concluding Remarks 265
5 Transport Properties 269
Ludmila Ivanenko, Horst Lange, Armin Heinrich
5.1 Free Charge Carriers and Their Mobility in Semiconductors 270
5.2 Experimental Resistivities 276
5.3 Mobility of Charge Carriers 296
5.4 Thermoelectric Properties 312
5.5 Concluding Remarks 323
References 327
Subject Index 373
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