Functional Materials and Advanced Manufacturing

47 Amorphous Semiconductors

Amorphous Materials

Covalent amorphous solids Ionic Solids like Vanadium

Phosphate, Iron Phosphate,

Inorganic Solids, Silicates,

Halide and Oxide Glasses etc.

Metallic Amorphous solids

like metallic glassy alloys,

alloys of metals as Ni, Fe,

Al, Co, Mn, Cu, Cr with B,

C, P, Si, Ge, N, As, rare

earth transition metal etc.

Tetrahedral bonded amorphous

semiconductors films group IV

and III-V semiconductors

Tetrahedral Glasses

A

II

B

IV

X

2

V

Glasses

Chalcogenide glasses containing

group VI elements as S, Se or Te

Elemental S, Se etc. Binary As

2

S

3

, As

2

Se

3

etc. MulticomponentS