1Semilab SDI, Tampa, FL 33617, USA
2University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
3Australian National University (ANU), Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
Adv. Mater. Lett., 2018, 9 (9), pp 629-631
DOI: 10.5185/amlett.2018.2084
Publication Date (Web): Jun 14, 2018
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E-mail: mwilson@semilabsdi.com
This work demonstrates the effectiveness of non-contact Kelvin-probe and surface photovoltage characterization of the work function (WF) induced barriers formed in silicon (Si) by thin 5nm carrier selective contact films of MoOx, TiO2 and MgF2. The calibrated Kelvin probe in the dark and under strong illumination where used to determine the dark WF of the deposited films and the band bending in the Si, FBB = WFDark – WFLight. The ac-surface photo voltage provided an independent measurement of the Si depletion layer width. Whole wafer mapping of all parameters can be performed. For n-type Si the high work function oxides MoOx (WF~5.7eV) and TiO2 (WF~5.0eV) are found to induce a depletion barrier with the height increasing with WF as FBB[eV] = 0.23WF – 0.77, i.e. quite similar to the well-known relationship for metal-silicon contacts. For the low work function MgF2 film, a depletion barrier was induced only in p-type Si. For this case, full wafer mapping revealed a lower WF pattern coinciding with larger band bending giving the slope, DFBB/DWF ~ -0.52. The slopes of 0.23 and 0.52 for n- and p-type Si deviates significantly from the ideal slope of 1. This result implies that the barrier formation at the Film-Si heterojunction is limited by the effect of interfacial layers and interface states in analogy to the well-known effects in Metal-Si contacts. It is believed that this demonstrated very fast, preparation-free, non-contact characterization technique can benefit research and engineering of selective contacts for solar cells.
Solar cell, work function, band bending, hole selective contacts, electron selective contacts.
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