Growth and doping of Si layers by molecular-jet chemical vapor deposition: Device fabrication

D. Lubben, G. Eres, G. E. Jellison, R. D. Westbrook, R. F. Wood

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Abstract

Homoepitaxial Si films doped both n- and p-type were deposited by molecular-jet chemical vapor deposition (CVD) from 10% Si2H6 in H2. Doping was accomplished from the background using PH3 for n-type and B2H6 for p-type. The dopant concentration was controlled over four orders of magnitude (1015-1019 cm-2) for films deposited between 650 and 800°C, and n-type films had significantly higher growth rates and doping levels compared to films deposited by very-low pressure CVD at equal Si2H6 throughput in the same reactor. Even without optimization, solar cells constructed from these films had open-circuit voltages and short-circuit currents as high as 490 mV and 21 mA cm-2, respectively, with fill factors as high as 70%.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2812-2814
Number of pages3
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume71
Issue number19
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 10 1997

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