The effect of thermal annealing on the optical properties of a-SiC:H films

Abstract In this work the dependence of optical and infrared properties of Amorphous hydrogenated SiC (a-SiC:H) films on annealing temperature, Ta, is reported. The a-SiC:H films (

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