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PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS
卷 13, 期 7, 页码 551-569出版社
JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
DOI: 10.1002/pip.611
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silicon nitride; microwave PECVD; surface passivation; bulk passivation; multicrystalline slicon; solar cells; internal quantum efficiency
Bulk and surface passivation by silicon nitride has become an indispensable element in industrial production of multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) solar cells. Microwave PECVD is a very effective method for high-throughput deposition of silicon nitride layers with the required properties for bulk and surface passivation. In this paper an analysis is presented of the relation between deposition parameters of microwave PECVD and material properties of silicon nitride. By tuning the process conditions (substrate temperature, gas flows, working pressure) we have been able to fabricate silicon nitride layers which fulfill almost ideally the four major requirements for mc-Si solar cells: (1) good anti-reflection coating (refractive index tunable between 2.0 and 2.3); (2) good surface passivation on p-type FZ wafers (S-eff < 30 cm/s); (3) good bulk passivation (improvement of IQE at 1000nm by 30% after short thermal anneal); (4) long-term stability (no observable degradation after several years of exposure to sunlight). By implementing this silicon nitride deposition in an inline production process of mc-Si solar cells we have been able to produce cells with an efficiency of 16.5%. Finally, we established that the continuous deposition process could be maintained for at least 20h without interruption for maintenance. On this timescale we did not observe any significant, changes in layer properties or cell properties. This shows the robustness of microwave PECVD for industrial production. Copyright (c) 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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