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2016
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Mechanism for crystalline Si surface passivation by the combination of SiO$_{2}$ tunnel oxide and µc-SiC:H thin film
Mechanism for crystalline Si surface passivation by the combination of SiO$_{2}$ tunnel oxide and µc-SiC:H thin film
This work demonstrates that the combination of a wet-chemically grown SiO2 tunnel oxide with a highly-doped microcrystalline silicon carbide layer grown by hot-wire chemical vapor deposition yields an excellent surface passivation for phosphorous-doped crystalline silicon (c-Si) wafers. We find effe...
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Personal Name(s): | Ding, Kaining (Corresponding author) |
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Pomaska, Manuel / Singh, Aryak / Lentz, Florian / Finger, Friedhelm / Rau, Uwe | |
Contributing Institute: |
Photovoltaik; IEK-5 |
Published in: | Physica status solidi / Rapid research letters, 10 (2016) 3, S. 233 – 236 |
Imprint: |
Weinheim
Wiley-VCH
2016
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DOI: |
10.1002/pssr.201510376 |
Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
Helmholtz Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training in Energy and Climate Research (HITEC) Solar cells of the next generation |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
This work demonstrates that the combination of a wet-chemically grown SiO2 tunnel oxide with a highly-doped microcrystalline silicon carbide layer grown by hot-wire chemical vapor deposition yields an excellent surface passivation for phosphorous-doped crystalline silicon (c-Si) wafers. We find effective minority carrier lifetimes of well above 6 ms by introducing this stack. We investigated its c-Si surface passivation mechanism in a systematic study combined with the comparison to a phosphorous-doped polycrystalline-Si (pc-Si)/SiO2 stack. In both cases, field effect passivation by the n-doping of either the µc-SiC:H or the pc-Si is effective. Hydrogen passivation during µc-SiC:H growth plays an important role for the µc-SiC:H/SiO2 combination, whereas phosphorous in-diffusion into the SiO2 and the c-Si is operative for the surface passivation via the Pc-Si/SiO2 stack. The high transparency and conductivity of the µc-SiC:H layer, a low thermal budget and number of processes needed to form the stack, and the excellent c-Si surface passivation quality are advantageous features of µc-SiC:H/SiO2 that can be beneficial for c-Si solar cells. |