N-Type Crystalline Silicon Films Free of Amorphous Silicon Deposited on Glass by HCl Addition Using Hot Wire Chemical Vapour Deposition
Since n-type crystalline silicon films have the electric property much better than those of hydrogenated amorphous and microcrystalline silicon films, they can enhance the performance of advanced electronic devices such as solar cells and thin film transistors (TFTs). Since the
formation of amorphous silicon is unavoidable in the low temperature deposition of microcrystalline silicon on a glass substrate at temperatures less than 550 °C in the plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition and hot wire chemical vapour deposition (HWCVD), crystalline silicon films
have not been deposited directly on a glass substrate but fabricated by the post treatment of amorphous silicon films. In this work, by adding the HCl gas, amorphous silicon-free n-type crystalline silicon films could be deposited directly on a glass substrate by HWCVD. The resistivity
of the n-type crystalline silicon film for the flow rate ratio of [HCl]/[SiH4] = 7.5 and [PH3]/[SiH4] = 0.042 was 5.31 × 10−4 Ω cm, which is comparable to the resistivity 1.23 × 10−3 Ω cm of films
prepared by thermal annealing of amorphous silicon films. The absence of amorphous silicon in the film could be confirmed by high resolution transmission electron microscopy.
Keywords: CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; RAMAN; SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS; THIN FILMS
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 September 2011
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