J. Liu et al., AN INSITU TRANSMISSION ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY STUDY OF ELECTRON-BEAM-INDUCED AMORPHOUS-TO-CRYSTALLINE TRANSFORMATION OF AL2O3 FILMS ON SILICON, Journal of applied physics, 73(10), 1993, pp. 5272-5273
An in situ transmission electron microscopy study of the amorphous-to-
crystalline transformation of Al2O3 films on a silicon substrate has b
een carried out. It is found that a critical electron-beam dose rate i
s required for the transformation to be observed. The possible effect
of the silicon substrate on the growth of the Al2O3 crystallites is al
so discussed.