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Cost must be reduced considerably before solar cells of amorphous silicon could be considered for large-... 

A turning point in the study of amorphous semiconductors was reached with the discovery that the addition of hydrogen to amorphous silicon could dramatically improve the material s optical and electrical properties. Unlike pure amorphous silicon, which is not photoconductive and cannot be readily doped, hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si H) displays a photoconductive gain of over six orders of magnitude and its dark conductivity can be changed by over ten orders of magnitude by n-type or p-type... 

A molecular beam of XeFj(gas) and a beam of argon ions were directed at the center of a silicon film which had been deposited on a quartz crystal microbalance. The sensitivity of the microbalance was such that the removal of one monolayer of silicon could be detected. In these experiments, the reaction products [e.g., SiF fgas)] were detected using mass spectrometry the surface concentrations were detected using Auger spectroscopy and the rate that material was being removed from the surface was measured with the microbalance. 

Perfection especially is required on the silicon surface. A 100 surface of silicon contains 6.8 x 1014 atoms/cm2. Surface defect densities must be less than one part in 105—105 defects/cm2 for satisfactory MOSFET operation. In fact, the discovery of the original point contact transistor was only possible because the native oxide on single-crystal germanium has surface defect densities less than one part in 104. Good silicon devices required the discovery (10) that the thermal oxidation of silicon could produce an excellent Si—Si02 interface. 

Investigation of the metabolic fate of compounds 64b and 71b led to the following results After peroral administration of 71b in rats, about 90% of the ingested silicon could be detected in urine within 4 days. In the ethyl ether extract of the urine, no unchanged 71b could be found. In the ethyl acetate extract the dealkylation product 85 was detected (29% of ingested sila-carbamate 71b) ... 

However, no metabolites were observed for compound 64b. About 70% of the ingested silicon could be detected in urine within 2 days. 53% of the applied sila-carbamate 64b was isolated from urine as the crystalline unaltered compound. 

Salts 782 and 783 having chloro or triflate substituents at silicon could also be prepared by partial metal-halogen exchange347. The elimination of MX (X = Cl, OTf M = Li, K) from these compounds to give silanediimines did not occur, but may lead to substitution products like 784 (equation 261). Addition reactions and a [2 + 2] cycloaddition are reported (equation 262 and 263). 

In solution the bridging fluorines are rapidly transferred between adjacent silicons, such that the 29Si spectrum features a triplet due to two equivalent fluorines (Vsi-F = 127 Hz). This triplet did not change to a doublet of doublets at the low-temperature limit in toluene-ds solution, and hence freezing out of the fluorine transfer between vicinal silicons could not be achieved. When the temperature was raised, all six fluorines became equivalent, causing the silicon resonance to be a septet ( /si-F = 43 Hz), presumably due to exchange by correlated rotation178 of the silicon substituents about the Si-benzene bonds. This rotational process was stopped when a molybdenum complex was formed (152), presumably as a result of increased steric hindrance for rotation. 

Johnson and coworkers (Johnson etal., 1986a) found that shallow donor dopants in n-type single-crystal silicon could also be neutralized by hydrogenation, although not as effectively as with boron, Further investigations led Johnson and coworkers (Johnson et al., 1987) to discover the surprising result that H can insert itself between Si—Si bonds to form extended structural defects that may be described as hydrogen-stabilized platelets. 

Silicone chemistry also develops by leaps and bounds. The first silicon-and carbon-containing compound, ethyl ether of orthosilicon acid, was obtained by the French scientist Ebelmen in 1844. Subsequently, in 1963, Friedel and Crafts synthesized the first silicone compound with a Si-C bond, tetraethylsilane. At the initial stages of silicone chemistry, the researchers attention was attracted to silicon, the closest counterpart of carbon. It seemed that silicon could give rise to as large a subdiscipline as chemistry itself. Yet, it was found that silicon, unlike carbon, does not form stable molecular chains from successively bonded Si atoms, and the interest for organic silicone derivatives dropped. 

The emulsions of P-cyclodextrins grafted on silicone could encapsulate the antifungal substance griseofulvin inside the P-cyclodextrin cavity by formation of inclusion complex. The encapsulation rate was limited to the 1 1 stoichiometry of the complex. Supplementary amount of griseofulvin slowly precipitated as crystalline particles in the aqueous phase. 

The early work on electropolishing silicon was done in largely nonaqueous solutions because it was believed that silicon could not be polished in aqueous HF solutions. Uhlir (7), for example, anodized silicon in 24 to 48% by weight aqueous solutions of HF at current densities up to 500 ma/cm and obtained only a matte black, brown, or red deposit. Later Turner (29) showed that silicon could be electropolished in aqueous HF solutions if a critical current density was exceeded. 

Heteroepitaxy of diamond on c-BN has been successful (e.g., 105,106) due to the identical crystal stractures with a close lattice match (only 1.3% mismatch) between the two and the high surface energy ( 4.8 J/m ) of the c-BN (111) plane. The heteroepitaxy of diamond on silicon could be the key to electronic device apphcations of diamond. However, diamond has a large lattice mismatch with silicon (52%) and a much higher surface energy than silicon (6 J/m for diamond, 1.5 J/m for silicon), hi spite of this, there are several reports of oriented diamond film deposition on substrates like silicon, silicon carbide, etc., by various techniques (e.g., 108-112). 

Silicone could be used instead of epoxy here since it maintains flexibility better when exposed to temperature changes and weathering. Epoxy tends to delaminate when temperatures change and will expand and contract the connections. 

The presence of this reaction sometimes could affect the crystallization of zeolites. Silicon could form a 5-coordinated chelate with organic ligands ... 

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