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Title: Dry Passivation Process for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells Using Hydrogen Plasma Treatment Followed by In Situ a-Si: H Deposition
Authors: Xu, Menglei
Wang, Chong
Bearda, Twan
Simoen, Eddy
Radhakrishnan, Hariharsudan Sivaramakrishnan
GORDON, Ivan 
Li, Wei
Szlufcik, Jozef
POORTMANS, Jef 
Issue Date: 2018
Publisher: IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Source: IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 8(6), p. 1539-1545
Abstract: A fully dry and hydrofluoric-free low-temperature process has been developed to passivate n-type crystalline silicon (c-Si) surfaces. Particularly, the use of a hydrogen (H-2) plasma treatment followed by in situ intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) deposition has been investigated. The impact of H-2 gas flow rate and H-2 plasma processing time on the a-Si:H/c-Si interface passivation quality is studied. Optimal H-2 plasma processing conditions result in the best effective minority carrier lifetime of up to 2.5 ms at an injection level of 1 x 10(15) cm(-3), equivalent to the best effective surface recombination velocity of 4 cm/s. The reasons that enable such superior passivation quality are discussed in this paper based on the characterization of the a-Si:H/c-Si interface and c-Si substrate using transmission electron microscopy, high angle annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy, and deep-level transient spectroscopy.
Notes: [Xu, Menglei; Poortmans, Jef] Katholieke Univ Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium. [Xu, Menglei; Bearda, Twan; Simoen, Eddy; Radhakrishnan, Hariharsudan Sivaramakrishnan; Gordon, Ivan; Szlufcik, Jozef; Poortmans, Jef] IMEC, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium. [Wang, Chong; Li, Wei] Univ Elect Sci & Technol China, Sch Optoelect Informat, Chengdu 610054, Peoples R China. [Bearda, Twan] ENTRAS, B-2800 Mechelen, Belgium. [Simoen, Eddy] Univ Ghent, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. [Poortmans, Jef] Hasselt Univ, B-3500 Hasselt, Belgium.
Keywords: Hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H);hydrogen (H-2) plasma;passivation;silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells
Document URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/28752
ISSN: 2156-3381
e-ISSN: 2156-3403
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2018.2871329
ISI #: 000448898400018
Category: A1
Type: Journal Contribution
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