Self-bias voltage diagnostics for the amorphous-to-microcrystalline transition in a-Si:H under a hydrogen-plasma treatment

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Hadjadj ◽  
N. Pham ◽  
P. Roca i Cabarrocas ◽  
O. Jbara
1992 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadaji Tsuge ◽  
Yoshihiro Hishikawa ◽  
Shingo Okamoto ◽  
Manabu Sasaki ◽  
Shinya Tsuda ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTA hydrogen-plasma treatment has been used for the first time to fabricate wide-gap, high-quality a-Si:H films. The hydrogen content (CH) of a-Si:H films substantially increases by the hydrogen-plasma treatment after deposition, without deteriorating the opto-electric properties of the films. The photoconductivity (σph) of ≥ 10-5 ο-1 cm-1, photosensitivity ( σ ph/σ d) of > 106 and SiH2/SiH of <0.2 are achieved for a film with CH of ∼25 atomic >%. The optical gap of the film is > 1.70 eV by the (α h ν )1/3 plot, and is >2 eV by the Tauc's plot. The open circuit voltage of a-Si solar cells exceeds 1 V conserving the fill factor of > 0.7 when the wide-gap a∼Si:H films are used as the i-layer, which proves the wide band gap and low defect density.


1987 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. E. Savas

ABSTRACTThe dependences of the electrode self-bias voltage and the ratio of ion energies on electrode area ratio are calculated for a model of capacitively coupled rf discharges. It is assumed that concentric spherical elecrodes with fluid-like radial ion flow adequately models the ion motion, that sheath impedances are dominant, and that ionization processes in the glow are due to ohmically heated electrons. Results show that the ratio of ion energies impacting the smaller electrode to those on the larger depends on the ratio of electrode areas in a more complex manner than a power law.The reason for this is that sheath impedances are more resistive or capacitive at different times in the rf cycle. The self-bias ratio is found to depend relatively little on the ionization model or the pressure but differs substantially from the “power law” result. The agreement of measurements with the model is fairly good.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Om Kumar Prasad ◽  
Srikant Kumar Mohanty ◽  
ChienHung Wu ◽  
Tsung Ying Yu ◽  
K-M Chang

1992 ◽  
Vol 284 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. D. Belyakova ◽  
S. V. Belyakov ◽  
L. S. Berman ◽  
A. T. Gorelenok ◽  
I. N. Karimov ◽  
...  

Investigations of plasma grown native oxides on indium phosphide carried out recently [1,2] have shown that these oxides exhibit properties which are promising to be used in MIS structures on InP, due to their stable composition which includes [InxPyOz]n polyphosphate phase mainly and due to reduced density of interface states (Nss<1011 eV−1 cm−2). It has been shown also that MIS structures with plasma native oxides exhibit C-V characteristics shifted towards positive values of voltage bias. The flat band shift is assigned to a negative charge injected into oxide film during plasma oxidation. The presence of this negative charge in plasma grown native oxides on InP may cause instability of electric properties of MIS structures [2].The aim of this work was to make an attempt to influence upon negative effective oxide charge density by means of hydrogen plasma treatment.


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