Author:
Beyer W.,Lennartz D.,Prunici P.,Stiebig H.
Abstract
ABSTRACTIn thin film silicon solar cell technology, annealing (heat treatment) effects are of interest since (i) annealing of underlying films often cannot be avoided during deposition and (ii) heat treatment (e.g. by laser) may be actively used for improvement of as-deposited material. Changes in the microstructure of several thin film silicon solar cell materials like hydrogenated amorphous silicon, microcrystalline silicon and zinc oxide by heat treatment were investigated by effusion measurements of hydrogen and implanted helium. Densification is observed for all materials studied, i.e. interconnected voids disappear or are transformed to isolated voids. We attribute the observed annealing effects primarily to an incomplete polymerization during growth. Important for solar cell processing is the result that the annealing effects involving structural changes set in at temperatures close to the temperature of deposition.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Cited by
7 articles.
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