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Submitted By Byungki Jung
Instrument Light Microscope: Olympus(BX51)-Bard

"Rat’s Tail" Lateral extent of an explosive crystallization of polycrystalline silicon using a CO2 laser spike annealing system at ~1100°C for 500 μs. Bright spot in the middle is a defect, which acts as an initiation point of the explosive crystallization.

Dept Materials Science & Engineering
Advisor Michael O. Thompson