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To study the electric and the thermoelectric properties of silicon thin films (SiTFs), we fabricated devices having SiTFs by using conventional complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible processes for mass production and extendibility. The conductivities and the Seebeck coefficients of SiTFs for dose concentrations of 5 × 1014 cm -2, 1 × 1015 cm -2 and 5 × 1015 cm -2 and for temperatures in the range of 310 to 430 K were measured by using homemade setup. The measured power factors of the SiTFs showed a slight increasing tendency with increasing measurement temperature and were maximum at a dose concentration of 1 × 1015 cm -2 for both n- and p-type films at 330 K.
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Kim, J., Kim, SJ., Kwon, J.Y. et al. Doping-concentration-dependent electric and thermoelectric properties of 2-dimensional silicon thin films. Journal of the Korean Physical Society 68, 1472–1475 (2016). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.68.1472
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