Properties and Applications of Amorphous Materials

by Thorpe, M. F.; Tichy, L.

• ISBN13: 9780792368113
• ISBN10: 0792368118
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The particular interest represented in this state of the art survey of amorphous materials is their electronic properties and device applications. The book is organised in five sections, starting with some more unusual aspects of structure. Section 2 deals with the very new area of self organisation in glasses and how this relates to a glass's rigidity. The next section surveys electronic states and transport phenomena. The fourth section deals with an area of photoinduced effects that has recently seen increased interest due to possible device applications. Finally, section 5 covers some properties specific to amorphous silicon and amorphous carbon.

Table of Contents

1. Structure
The Structure of Amorphous Materials	1	(12)
S.R. Elliott
Short- and Medium-Range Order in Ge(S,Se) Glasses Using Raman Scattering	13	(12)
Y. Wang
K. Murase
Structural Characterization of Amorphous GexSe100-x by Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy	25	(10)
P. Nagels
R. Mertens
L. Tichy
Structural Relaxation in Amorphous Materials	35	(10)
J. Malek
J. Shanelova
Thermal Properties Studied on As2Se3 Model Glass	45	(10)
E. Cernoskova
Z. Cernosek
J. Holubova
Vibrational Excitations in Amorphous Materials	55	(6)
S.R. Elliott
2. Self-Organization and Rigidity
Rigidity and Self-Organization of Network Glasses and the Intermediate Phase	61	(36)
M.F. Thorpe
M.V. Chubynsky
Onset of Rigidity in Steps in Chalcogenide Glasses: The Intermediate Phase	97	(36)
P. Boolchand
D. Selvanathan
Y. Wang
D.G. Georgiev
W.J. Bresser
Network Stiffering and Chemical Ordering in Chalcogenide Glasses: 119Sn and 121Sb Mobauer Spectroscopy of the Systems Ge(Sn)-As-Se and Ge(Sn)-Sb-Se	133	(34)
Carsten Rosenhahn
Ralf Mullmann
Bernd-Dieter Mosel
Hellmut Eckert
The Chemical Threshold in Chalcogenide Glasses	167	(10)
L. Tichy
H. Ticha
M. Munzar
R. Vahalova
Stochastic Matrix and Self-Organization in Glasses	177	(12)
Richard Kerner
3. Electronic Structure
First Principles Electronic Structure Methods	189	(32)
Pablo Ordejon
Electronic Structure of Amorphous Insulators and Photo-Structural Effects in Chalcogenide Glasses	221	(30)
D.A. Drabold
S. Nakhmanson
X. Zhang
The Electronic Properties of Nano, Micro and Amorphous Silicon	251	(10)
I. Balberg
Transport in Amorphous Semiconductors	261	(30)
P. Thomas
H. Overhof
4. Photoinduced Effects
Nanometer-Scale Photo-Induced Structural Changes in Chalcogenide Glasses	291	(10)
A.V. Kolobov
Photoinduced Effects in Amorphous Semiconductors	301	(10)
E. Mytilineou
Modeling of Photoinduced Anisotropies in Chalcogenide Glasses	311	(10)
G.J. Adriaenssens
E.V. Emelianova
V.I. Arkhipov
Structure and Optically Induced Changes of Reactivity and Optical Properties of Amorphous Chalcogenides	321	(8)
M. Frumar
Z. Polak
J. Jedelsky
Z. Cernosek
B. Frumarova
5. Amorphous Silicon and Carbon
Preparation and Structural Properties of Tetrahedrally Bonded Amorphous Carbon	329	(14)
W.I. Milne
Mechanical, Optical and Electrical Properties of Tetrahedrally Bonded Amorphous Carbon	343	(12)
W.I. Milne
Field Emission from Carbon Films Grown by the Cathodic Arc Process	355	(14)
W.I. Milne
Amorphous Silicon Materials and Devices for Active Matrix Arrays	369	(32)
R.A. Street
Optical Properties of Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon Layers	401	(33)
Milan Vanecek
Ales Poruba
Photograph	434	(3)
Participants	437	(8)
Index	445