Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
High quality polycrystalline silicon was made on glass from fluorinated precursors by two step growth, i.e., (1) formation of seed crystals on glass by layer-by-layer(LL) technique and (2) grain-growth on the seeds. In LL technique, deposition of ultra-thin films and treatment with atomic hydrogen was repeated alternately. Columnar grains with 200 nm dia were grown epitaxy-like on the seeds by optimizing the deposition parameters under in situ observation with spectroscopic ellipsometry.