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Characterization of epitaxial heavily-doped silicon regions formed by HWCVD using Micro-Raman and Micro-Photoluminescence Spectroscopy

Characterization of epitaxial heavily-doped silicon regions formed by HWCVD using Micro-Raman and Micro-Photoluminescence Spectroscopy
Characterization of epitaxial heavily-doped silicon regions formed by HWCVD using Micro-Raman and Micro-Photoluminescence Spectroscopy

We report on the characterization of heavily boron doped epitaxial silicon regions grown in a hot-wire chemical vapor deposition tool, using micro-Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopy. In particular, the use of this approach for emitter fabrication in an interdigitated back contact silicon solar cell is studied, by analyzing its suitability concerning selective growth, uniformity, anneal time, and luminescent defects. We show that by reducing the silane flow rate, both the required postanneal time and intensity of defect luminescence are reduced. Furthermore, we show that selective area growth does not affect either the quality of the films or the sharpness of the resulting lateral doping profile. The uniformity of the doping is shown to be better than that achieved using laser doping.

Epitaxy, hot-wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD), laser doping, silicon, spectral photoluminescence (PL)
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Rahman, Tasmiat
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Rahman, Tasmiat, Nguyen, Hieu T., Tarazona, Antulio, Shi, Jingxing, Han, Young Joon, Franklin, Evan, Macdonald, Daniel and Boden, Stuart A. (2018) Characterization of epitaxial heavily-doped silicon regions formed by HWCVD using Micro-Raman and Micro-Photoluminescence Spectroscopy. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 8 (3), 813-819. (doi:10.1109/JPHOTOV.2018.2818284).

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We report on the characterization of heavily boron doped epitaxial silicon regions grown in a hot-wire chemical vapor deposition tool, using micro-Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopy. In particular, the use of this approach for emitter fabrication in an interdigitated back contact silicon solar cell is studied, by analyzing its suitability concerning selective growth, uniformity, anneal time, and luminescent defects. We show that by reducing the silane flow rate, both the required postanneal time and intensity of defect luminescence are reduced. Furthermore, we show that selective area growth does not affect either the quality of the films or the sharpness of the resulting lateral doping profile. The uniformity of the doping is shown to be better than that achieved using laser doping.

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Accepted/In Press date: 1 March 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 12 April 2018
Published date: May 2018
Keywords: Epitaxy, hot-wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD), laser doping, silicon, spectral photoluminescence (PL)

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Local EPrints ID: 421612
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/421612
PURE UUID: ad8ef38c-5270-4b1c-b093-cb74f79003e4
ORCID for Tasmiat Rahman: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6485-2128

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Date deposited: 15 Jun 2018 16:31
Last modified: 16 Jul 2024 01:46

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Author: Tasmiat Rahman ORCID iD
Author: Hieu T. Nguyen
Author: Antulio Tarazona
Author: Jingxing Shi
Author: Young Joon Han
Author: Evan Franklin
Author: Daniel Macdonald
Author: Stuart A. Boden

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