Special Issue: The Silicon Age

✍ Scribed by Kittler, Martin ;Yang, Deren

• Book ID: 105364386
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 486 KB
• Volume: 203
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-8965
• DOI: 10.1002/pssa.200690007

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The present issue of physica status solidi (a) contains a collection of articles about different aspects of current silicon research and applications, ranging from basic investigations of mono‐ and polycrystalline silicon materials and nanostructures to technologies for device fabrication in silicon photovoltaics, micro‐ and optoelectronics. Guest Editors are Martin Kittler and Deren Yang, the organizers of a recent Sino–German symposium held in Cottbus, Germany, 19–24 September 2005.

The cover picture shows four examples of “The Silicon Age”: the structure of a thin film solar cell on low‐cost SSP (silicon sheet from powder) substrate (upper left image) [1], a high‐resolution transmission electron microscopy image and diffraction pattern of a single‐crystalline Si nanowire (upper right) [2], a carrier lifetime map from an n‐type multicrystalline silicon wafer after gettering by a grain boundary (lower left) [3], and a scanning acoustic microscopy image of a bonded 150 mm diameter wafer pair (upper right) [4].