Deep level transient spectroscopy has been used to study the influence of the beam scan speed on quenchedhyphen;in defects in cw laser processed virgin silicon. It is shown that the averaged defect concentration decreases by almost two orders of magnitude as the scan speed is increased from 1 to 100 cm/s for a fixed temperature distribution in the material. Implications regarding technological applications of cw laser processing are briefly discussed.
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