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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-B.2012.36.10.1019

Direct-Aluminum-Heating-Induced Crystallization of Amorphous Silicon Thin Film  

Park, Ji-Young (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang Univ.)
Lee, Dae-Geon (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang Univ.)
Moon, Seung-Jae (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang Univ.)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B / v.36, no.10, 2012 , pp. 1019-1023 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this research, a novel direct-aluminum-heating-induced crystallization method was developed for the purpose of application to solar cells. By applying a constant current of 3 A to an aluminum thin film, a 200-nm-thick amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin film with a size of $1cm{\times}1cm$ can be crystallized into a polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) thin film within a few tens of seconds. The Raman spectrum analysis shows a peak of 520 $cm^{-1}$, which verifies the presence of poly-Si. After removing the aluminum layer, the poly-Si thin film was found to be porous. SIMS analysis showed that the porous poly-Si thin film was heavily p-doped with a doping concentration of $10^{21}cm^{-3}$. Thermal imaging shows that the crystallization from a-Si to poly-Si occurred at a temperature of around 820 K.
Keywords
Solar Cell; Aluminum Induced Crystallization; P-Doped Silicon; Porous Silicon; Thermal Imaging;
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