Progress in solar cells from hydrogenated amorphous silicon

M Stuckelberger, R Biron, N Wyrsch, FJ Haug… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) has been used for decades—doped and as
intrinsic absorber layers—in thin-film silicon solar cells. Whereas their effiency was improved …

Synthesis and properties of free-standing monolayer amorphous carbon

CT Toh, H Zhang, J Lin, AS Mayorov, YP Wang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Bulk amorphous materials have been studied extensively and are widely used, yet their
atomic arrangement remains an open issue. Although they are generally believed to be …

Observation of the role of subcritical nuclei in crystallization of a glassy solid

BS Lee, GW Burr, RM Shelby, S Raoux, CT Rettner… - Science, 2009 - science.org
Phase transformation generally begins with nucleation, in which a small aggregate of atoms
organizes into a different structural symmetry. The thermodynamic driving forces and kinetic …

Local structure analysis of amorphous materials by angstrom-beam electron diffraction

A Hirata - Microscopy, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The structure analysis of amorphous materials still leaves much room for improvement.
Owing to the lack of translational or rotational symmetry of amorphous materials, it is …

Aluminum nanoscale order in amorphous Al92Sm8 measured by fluctuation electron microscopy

WG Stratton, J Hamann, JH Perepezko… - Applied Physics …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
Fluctuation electron microscopy (FEM) measurements and simulations have identified
nanoscale aluminum-like medium-range order in rapidly quenched amorphous Al 92 Sm 8 …

Nanoscale nuclei in phase change materials: Origin of different crystallization mechanisms of Ge2Sb2Te5 and AgInSbTe

BS Lee, RM Shelby, S Raoux, CT Retter… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Phase change memory devices are based on the rapid and reversible amorphous-to-
crystalline transformations of phase change materials, such as Ge 2 Sb 2 Te 5 and …

Variable resolution fluctuation electron microscopy on Cu-Zr metallic glass using a wide range of coherent STEM probe size

J Hwang, PM Voyles - Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2011 - cambridge.org
We report variable resolution fluctuation electron microscopy (VRFEM) measurements on
Cu64. 5Zr35. 5 metallic glass acquired using scanning transmission electron microscopy …

Nearly hyperuniform network models of amorphous silicon

M Hejna, PJ Steinhardt, S Torquato - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2013 - APS
We introduce the concept of nearly hyperuniform network (NHN) structures as alternatives to
the conventional continuous random network (CRN) models for amorphous tetrahedrally …

[HTML][HTML] Elucidating the local atomic and electronic structure of amorphous oxidized superconducting niobium films

TF Harrelson, E Sheridan, E Kennedy, J Vinson… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Qubits made from superconducting materials are a mature platform for quantum information
science application, such as quantum computing. However, material-based losses are now …

In situ observation of medium range ordering and crystallization of amorphous TiO2 ultrathin films grown by atomic layer deposition

M Abbasi, Y Dong, J Meng, D Morgan, X Wang… - APL Materials, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The evolution of medium range ordering (MRO) and crystallization behavior of amorphous
TiO2 films grown by atomic layer deposition (ALD) were studied using in situ four …