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Based on modeling and calculation results and using appropriate photomasks, we produced microtextured Si substrates, which were then coated with a Ni layer. Next, polycrystalline CdTe films were produced on the Ni by quasi-closed space growth. Their surface morphology was examined by optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. We calculated the stress induced in such CdTe/Ni/Si structures by the lattice mismatch and thermal expansion mismatch between the materials in contact.
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Original Russian Text © G.A. Il’chuk, I.V. Kurilo, R.Yu. Petrus’, V.V. Kus’nezh, 2014, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2014, Vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 605–612.
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Il’chuk, G.A., Kurilo, I.V., Petrus’, R.Y. et al. Growth of CdTe films on Ni-coated microtextured silicon substrates. Inorg Mater 50, 559–565 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168514060077
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