Journal
SILICON
Volume 14, Issue 13, Pages 7793-7798Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12633-021-01499-1
Keywords
Cast multicrystalline silicon; Cooling rate; Interstitial iron; Structural defects; Recombination activity
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51861023, 52062035]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province [20181BAB206010]
- Science and Technology Research Project of Jiangxi Education Department [14110]
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This study employed PL imaging techniques and a minority carrier lifetime test system to investigate the effects of cooling rate on the interstitial iron concentration, structural defects' recombination activity, and minority carrier lifetime in cast multicrystalline silicon. The results showed that higher cooling rates led to increased Fe-i concentration, recombination active dislocations and grain boundaries, and decreased minority carrier lifetime.
Photoluminescence (PL) imaging techniques and the minority carrier lifetime test system were employed to investigate the variation of the interstitial iron (Fe-i) concentration, the recombination activity of structural defects and the minority carrier lifetime of cast multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) in response to the cooling rate after heating. The results showed that when the mc-Si wafers are heated to high-temperature (1000 degrees C) and then cooled to ambient temperature with different cooling rate, the Fe-i concentration, the number of recombination active dislocations and grain boundaries increased as the cooling rate rises while the minority carrier lifetime decreased. If cast mc-Si is heated followed by faster cooling at 30 degrees C/s, the Fe-i concentration increase by 223% and the electrical activity of grain boundaries, dislocations and intragrain increase significantly, that is to say, the whole wafer is heavily contaminated with metal impurities, and present extremely low minority carrier lifetime.
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