The one phonon Raman spectrum in microcrystalline silicon

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Abstract

The red shift and the broadening of the Raman signal from microcrystalline silicon films is described in terms of a relaxation in the q-vector selection rule for the excitation of the Raman active optical phonons. The relationship between width and shift calculated from the known dispersion relation in c-Si is in good agreement with available data. An increase in the decay rate of the optical phonons predicted on the basis of the same model is confirmed experimentally.

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