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Silicon Intrinsic Gettering Technology: Understanding and Practice (실리콘 Intrinsic Gettering 기술의 이해와 응용)

  • Choe Kwang Su
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.9-12
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    • 2004
  • Metallic impurities, such as Fe, Cu, and Au, become generation and recombination centers for minority carriers when combined with oxide precipitates or silicon self-interstitial clusters. As these centers may cause leakage and discharge in silicon devices, their prevention through gettering of the metallic impurities is an important issue. In this article, key aspects of intrinsic gettering, such as oxygen control, wafer cleaning, device area denudation, and bulk oxygen precipitation are discussed, and a practical method of implementing intrinsic gettering is outlined.

A Study on the Gettering in Czochralski-grown Single Crystal Silicon Wafer (Czochralski 법으로 성장시킨 실리콘 단결정 Wafer에서의 Gettering에 관한 연구)

  • 양두영;김창은;한수갑;이희국
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.273-282
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    • 1992
  • The effects of intrinsic and extrinsic gettering on the formation of microdefects in the wafer and on the electrical performance at near-surfaces of three different oxygen-bearing Czochralski silicon single crystal wafers were investigated by varying the combinations of the pre-heat treatments and the phosphorus diffusion through the back-surface of the wafers. The wafers which had less than 10.9 ppma of oxygen formed no gettering zones irrespective of any pre-heat treatments, while the wafers which had more than 14.1 ppma of oxygen and were treated by Low+High pre-heat treatments generated the gettering zone comprising oxygen precipitates, staking faults, and dislocation loops. The effects of extrinsic gettering by phosphorus diffusion were evident in all samples such that the minority carrier lifetimes were increased and junction leakage currents were decreased. However, the total gettering effects among the different pre-heat treatments did not necessarily correspond to the gettering structure revealed by synchrotron radiation section topograph.

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An Experimental Study on the Low Noise Property of the Bipolar Junction Transistor Fabricated by HCI Gettering (HCI Gettering Oxidation을 이용한 BJT의 저잡음화에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • 최세곤;서희돈
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.7-12
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    • 1984
  • In this paper, the authors applied the method of hydrogen chloride gettering oxidation to fabricate the low noise bipolar transistor. The results of measurements of the effect of guttering on the variation of flicker noise spectral intensity for variable HCI concentrations indicate that flicker noise in bipolar than-sistor is dependent on the surface condition and that the gettering in a mixture of 2% HCI in oxidation produced the optimal results in the fabrication of the low noise device. In addition, it was also noted that the PSG layer formed by the emitter source (phosphorus) did not have so much guttering effect as in the process with HCl getterinng.

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Phophorus External Gettering for High Quality Wafer of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

  • Park, Hyo-Min;Tak, Seong-Ju;Kim, Chan-Seok;Park, Seong-Eun;Kim, Yeong-Do;Kim, Dong-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.43.2-43.2
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    • 2011
  • Minority Carrier recombination should be suppressed for high efficiency solar cells. However, impurities in the silicon bulk region deteriorate the minority carrier lifetimes, causes conversion efficiency drop. In this study, we introduced phosphorus external gettering for silicon heterojunction solar cell substrates. Gettering was undergone at 750, 800, 850 and $900^{\circ}C$ in furnace for 30 minutes. Bulk lifetimes and calculated diffusion length were improved. We applied phosphorus gettering to silicon heterojunction solar cells. Gettered group and ungettered group were used as substrate of silicon heterojunction solar cells. After fabrication, characteristics of solar cells were analyzed. The results were observed to see the enhancement of substrate quality which directly connects with solar cell properties.

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Utilization of the surface damage as gettering sink in the silicon wafers useful for the solar cell fabrication (태양전지용 규소 기판에 존재하는 기계적 손상의 gettering 공정에의 활용)

  • Kim, Dae-Il;Kim, Young-Kwan
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.66-70
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    • 2006
  • Various kind of structural defects are observed to be present on the oxidized surface of the silicon crystal which was previously damaged mechanically. The formation of such defects was found to depend on the amount of damage induced and the temperature of thermal oxidation. It was confirmed by the measurement of minority carrier life time that gettering capability decreases as the size of the defects increase. The strained layer which is formed due to smaller amount of damage or lower oxidation temperature believed to has higher capability of gettering over defects like dislocation loops or stacking faults.

Fabrication of high-quality silicon wafers by gettering process (Gettering을 이용한 태양전지용 고품위 실리콘 기판 제작)

  • Park, Hyo-Min;Tark, Sung-Ju;Kang, Min-Gu;Park, Sung-Eun;Lee, Seung-Hun;Kim, Dong-Whan
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.366-366
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    • 2009
  • 후면접합 태양전지는 상용 태양전지의 수평전류 손실(lateral current loss) 이 없으며, 전면전극에 의해 발생하는 그림자 손실(shading loss) 줄인 고효율 태양전지의 하나이다. 생성된 반송자가 후면에 위치한 전극에서 수집되기 때문에 효율향상을 위해서는 불순물에 의한 재결합을 줄이는 것이 중요하다. 따라서 Gettering 은 높은 소수반송자 수명(life-time)을 가지는 고품위 실리콘 기판은 고효율 실리콘태양전지 제작을 위한 중요 요소 기술이다. 본 연구에서는 n-type c-Si 기판을 이용한 고효율 실리콘 이종접합 태양전지제작을 위해 external gettering 공정을 이용하여 고품위 실리콘 기판을 제작하였다. POC13 doping process 의 온도, 시간을 변화시킴으로써 이에 따른 변화를 관찰하였다. 주사전자현미경(SEM)를 통해 etch pit 을 확인 했으며,Four point probe 를 통해 면저항을 측정, 인(P)의 농도를 계산 하였다. 계산된 면저항을 통해 인(P)의 확산 깊이를 계산하였다. Iodine passivation 된 시편을 Qusi-steady state photoconductance (QSSPC)를 이용하여 소수반송자 수명을 측정함으로써 gettering 에 의한 bulk lifetime 향상 효과를 관찰하였다.

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A Study on the Potassium Gettering in Al-1%Si/SiO2/PSG Multilevel Thin Films (Al-1%Si/SiO2/PSG 적층 박막에서 potassium 게터링에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jin Young
    • Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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    • v.48 no.5
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    • pp.233-237
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    • 2015
  • In order to investigate the potassium (K) gettering, Al-1%Si/$SiO_2$/PSG multilevel thin films were fabricated. Al-1%Si thin films and $SiO_2$/PSG passivations were deposited by using DC magnetron sputter techniques and APCVD (atmosphere pressure chemical vapor deposition), respectively. Heat treatment was carried out at $300^{\circ}C$ for 5 h in air. SIMS (secondary ion mass spectrometry) depth profiling analysis was used to determine the distribution of K, Al, Si, P, and other elements throughout the $SiO_2$/PSG passivated Al-1%Si thin film interconnections. Potassium peaks were observed throughout the $SiO_2$/PSG passivation layers, and especially the interface gettering at the $SiO_2$/PSG and at the Al-1%Si/$SiO_2$ interfaces was observed. Potassium gettering in Al-1%Si/$SiO_2$/PSG multilevel thin films is considered to be caused by a segregation type of gettering.

Analysis of the Na Gettering in PSG/SiO2/Al-1%Si Multilevel Thin Films using XPS and SIMS (XPS와 SIMS를 이용한 PSG/SiO2/Al-1%Si 적층 박막내의 Na 게터링 분석)

  • Kim, Jin Young
    • Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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    • v.49 no.5
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    • pp.467-471
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    • 2016
  • In order to investigate the Na gettering, PSG/$SiO_2$/Al-1%Si multilevel thin films were fabricated. DC magnetron sputter techniques and APCVD (atmosphere pressure chemical vapor deposition) were utilized for the deposition of Al-1%Si thin films and PSG/$SiO_2$ passivations, respectively. Heat treatment was carried out at $300^{\circ}C$ for 5 h in air. SIMS (secondary ion mass spectrometry) depth profiling and XPS (X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy) analysis were used to determine the distribution and binding energies of Na, Al, Si, O, P and other elements throughout the PSG/$SiO_2$/Al-1%Si multilevel thin films. Na peaks were mainly observed at the the PSG/$SiO_2$ interface and at the $SiO_2$/Al-1%Si interfaces. Na impurity gettering in PSG/$SiO_2$/Al-1%Si multilevel thin films is considered to be caused by a segregation type of gettering. The chemical state of Si and O elements in PSG passivation appears to be $SiO_2$.