Efficient surface passivation of black silicon using spatial atomic layer deposition
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2017-09-21
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7th International Conference on Silicon Photovoltaics, SiliconPV 2017, Volume 124, pp. 282–287, Energy Procedia
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Nanostructured silicon surface (black silicon, b-Si) has a great potential in photovoltaic applications, but the large surface area requires efficient passivation. It is well known that b-Si can be efficiently passivated using conformal Atomic Layer Deposited (ALD) Al2O3, but ALD suffers from a low deposition rate. Spatial ALD (SALD) could be a solution as it provides a high deposition rate combined with conformal coating. Here we compare the passivation of b-Si realized with prototype SALD tool Beneq SCS 1000 and temporal ALD. Additionally, we study the effect of post-annealing conditions on the passivation of SALD coated samples. The experiments show that SALD passivates b-Si surfaces well as charge carrier lifetimes up to 1.25 ms are obtained, which corresponds to a surface recombination velocity Seff,max of 10 cm/s. These were comparable with the results obtained with temporal ALD on the same wafers (0.94 ms, Seff,max 14 cm/s). This study thus demonstrates high-quality passivation of b-Si with industrially viable deposition rates.Description
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spatial atomic layer deposition, nanostructured silicon, high surface area, surface passivation, conformal coating, aluminum oxide
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Heikkinen, I, Repo, P, Vähänissi, V, Pasanen, T, Malinen, V & Savin, H 2017, Efficient surface passivation of black silicon using spatial atomic layer deposition . in 7th International Conference on Silicon Photovoltaics, SiliconPV 2017 . vol. 124, Energy Procedia, Elsevier, pp. 282–287, International Conference on Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics, Freiburg, Germany, 03/04/2017 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.300