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Excellent c-Si surface passivation by low-temperature atomic layer deposited titanium oxide

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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
卷 104, 期 25, 页码 -

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AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4885096

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  1. National University of Singapore (NUS)
  2. Spin Energy Lab (SEL)
  3. A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE)
  4. Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS)
  5. NUS
  6. Singapore's National Research Foundation (NRF) through the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB)
  7. National Research Foundation, Prime Minister's Office, Singapore, under its Energy Innovation Research Programme (EIRP) [NRF2009EWT-CERP001-056, NRF2011EWT-CERP001-018]
  8. Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department of NUS

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In this work, we demonstrate that thermal atomic layer deposited (ALD) titanium oxide (TiOx) films are able to provide a-up to now unprecedented-level of surface passivation on undiffused lowresistivity crystalline silicon (c-Si). The surface passivation provided by the ALD TiOx films is activated by a post-deposition anneal and subsequent light soaking treatment. Ultralow effective surface recombination velocities down to 2.8 cm/s and 8.3 cm/s, respectively, are achieved on n-type and p-type float-zone c-Si wafers. Detailed analysis confirms that the TiOx films are nearly stoichiometric, have no significant level of contaminants, and are of amorphous nature. The passivation is found to be stable after storage in the dark for eight months. These results demonstrate that TiOx films are also capable of providing excellent passivation of undiffused c-Si surfaces on a comparable level to thermal silicon oxide, silicon nitride, and aluminum oxide. In addition, it is well known that TiOx has an optimal refractive index of 2.4 in the visible range for glass encapsulated solar cells, as well as a low extinction coefficient. Thus, the results presented in this work could facilitate the re-emergence of TiOx in the field of high-efficiency silicon wafer solar cells. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.

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