We have studied the Ge crystalline nucleation and film growth on quartz substrate at 250 degrees C from inductively-coupled plasma (ICP) of GeH4 diluted with H-2. The ICP was generated by supplying 60 MHz power to an external single-turn antenna which was placed on a quartz plate window of a stainless steel reactor and parallel to the substrate. We have found that the growth rate is significantly increased when the preferential growth of the (110) plane becomes pronounced after the formation of randomly-oriented crystalline network. The (110) oriented Ge films, of which average crystallinity is as high as 70%. The integrated intensity ratio of TO phonons in crystalline phase to those in disordered phase, were grown at a rate of similar to 4.0 nm/s after the formation of amorphous incubation layer with a thickness of similar to 0.1 mu m on quartz. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.