Stress engineering in amorphous silicon thin films

Eric Johlin; Sebastián Castro-Galnares; Amir Abdallah; Nouar Tabet; Mariana I. Bertoni; Tesleem Asafa; Jeffrey C. Grossman; Said Sayed; Tonio Buonassisi

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2011.6185874

Stress engineering in amorphous silicon thin films

Eric Johlin^*
, Sebastián Castro-Galnares
, Amir Abdallah
, Nouar Tabet
, Mariana I. Bertoni
, Tesleem Asafa
, Jeffrey C. Grossman
, Said Sayed
, Tonio Buonassisi

^*Corresponding author for this work

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

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Abstract

Low hole mobility severely limits the conversion efficiencies of amorphous silicon (a-Si) solar cells. Previously it has been proposed that carrier mobility can be improved by introducing certain types of stress into thin films. In this work we explore a range of deposition conditions allowing the formation of intrinsic stresses varying from -924 MPa compressive to 386 MPa tensile. We then discuss the origins of these stresses due to ion bombardment, presenting a model correlating our deposition parameters with our observed stress measurements. In doing so we elucidate the non-linear relationship between deposition pressure and the films intrinsic stress.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Program - 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2011
Pages	176-178
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2011.6185874
State	Published - 2011

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Name	Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
ISSN (Print)	0160-8371

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Johlin, E., Castro-Galnares, S., Abdallah, A., Tabet, N., Bertoni, M. I., Asafa, T., Grossman, J. C., Sayed, S., & Buonassisi, T. (2011). Stress engineering in amorphous silicon thin films. In Program - 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2011 (pp. 176-178). Article 6185874 (Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference). https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2011.6185874

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Stress engineering in amorphous silicon thin films. / Johlin, Eric; Castro-Galnares, Sebastián; Abdallah, Amir et al.
Program - 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2011. 2011. p. 176-178 6185874 (Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference).

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Stress engineering in amorphous silicon thin films

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