• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.105-112
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• 2011

Syntheses and property analysis of hydropolysilanes were studied. Those hydropolysilanes can be utilized as precursors for amorphous silicon and polycrystallline silicon for the purpose of the solar cell and the thin film transister for the next generation's semiconductors. Most important characteristics of this study are to find optimized conditions for the synthesis and property analysis of soluble hydropolysilanes. Also the possibility of pyrolytic conversion to amorphous and polycrystalline silicon was investigated.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.345-349
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• 2012

Polysilane black powders were synthesized by sonochemical methods from silicon tetrachloride with sodium metal with 37.0% yield. Those black powder materials were found to have fibrous or irregular shapes with round surface. It was found that thermal behaviors of those polysilane black powders were similar to that of hydropolysilanes which was reported earlier. After thermal treatment, black polysilicon was obtained with 57.1% residue yield, and those fibrous or irregular shapes with round surface were intact but lots of small cavities were formed indicating porous structure, and found to be an amorphous state from XRD analysis.