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        <journal-title>St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Journal: Physics and Mathematics</journal-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Научно-технические ведомости СПбГПУ. Физико-математические науки</trans-title>
        </trans-title-group>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2304-9782, 2618-8686, 2405-7223</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">19</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18721/JPM.184.119</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Femtosecond laser modification of amorphous silicon films for photovoltaic and polarization optics applications</article-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Фемтосекундная лазерная модификация пленок аморфного кремния для приложений фотовольтаики и поляризационной оптики</trans-title>
        </trans-title-group>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Shuleiko</surname>
            <given-names>Dmitrii</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>shuleyko.dmitriy@physics.msu.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0001-8017-9984</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Sokolovskaya</surname>
            <given-names>Olga</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>sokolovskayaoi@my.msu.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-6363-4970</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Martyshov</surname>
            <given-names>Mikhail</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>martyshov@physics.msu.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0003-3281-8352</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Serdobintsev</surname>
            <given-names>Alexey</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
          <email>alexas80@bk.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0001-6780-9865</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Volkovoynova</surname>
            <given-names>Larisa</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-4759-5828</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Venig</surname>
            <given-names>Sergey</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>Sergey.Venig@gmail.com</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-2608-7621</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Pakholcuk</surname>
            <given-names>Petr</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>petr.pakholchuk@mail.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Kuzmin</surname>
            <given-names>Evgenii</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>e.kuzmin@lebedev.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Zabotnov</surname>
            <given-names>Stanislav</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>zabotnov@physics.msu.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Kashkarov</surname>
            <given-names>Pavel</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>kashkarov@physics.msu.ru</email>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="aff1">Saratov State University</aff>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-12-31">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>18</volume>
      <issue>4.1</issue>
      <fpage>117</fpage>
      <lpage>122</lpage>
      <abstract xml:lang="en">
        <p>Femtosecond laser structuring is a promising method for obtaining amorphous-crystalline silicon (a-Si/c-Si) heterojunction in a-Si thin films, as well as surface structures with optical anisotropy. Depth-resolved Raman spectroscopy of an a-Si film irradiated at laser fluence of 0.1 J/cm2, which is below a-Si ablation threshold, revealed its surface crystallization with the crystallized layer characteristic depth of 45 ± 5 nm. As a result of such laser irradiation, the electric current rectification coefficient in the film, determined from electrophysical measurements, increased from 2.7 to 13.6 indicating possible formation of an a-Si/c-Si heterojunction. The presence of 10-nm-thick Al coating decreases the number of pulses per unit area required for a-Si crystallization by 2.5 times. Optical anisotropy of the laser-crystallized a-Si films is manifested in their optical retardance of 280 ± 40 nm, caused by the formation of one-dimensional surface relief with the period of 1100 ± 50 nm.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>femtosecond laser pulses</kwd>
        <kwd>amorphous silicon</kwd>
        <kwd>heterojunction</kwd>
        <kwd>laser-induced periodic surface structures</kwd>
        <kwd>optical retardance</kwd>
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