Crystallization of amorphous silicon films annealed by line shape excimer laser beam

Guangyue YIN; Libing YOU; Xing CHEN; Jingzhen SHAO; Liang CHEN; Qingsheng WANG; Xiaodong FANG

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1007-5461. 2019.02.014

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