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Determination of the quality of a-Si:H films: “true”transport parameters
Auteur(s)
Beck, N.
Shah, Arvind
Wyrsch, Nicolas
Date de parution
1994
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Conference Record of the Twenty Fourth IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (1994 IEEE First World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1994/1//476-479
Résumé
For the characterisation of a-Si:H layers, steady-state photoconductivity (SSPC) and steady-state photocarrier grating (SSPG) are currently used. But the μτ-products deduced from these measurements are a function of the prevailing dangling bond occupation in the film and, thus, are not a measure of material quality. In the present paper the authors introduce the product μ<sup>0</sup>τ<sup>0</sup>, which is independent of dangling bond charge and which monitors material quality in terms of band mobility μ<sup>0</sup> and capture time τ<sup>0</sup>, the latter being, in its turn, inversely proportional to dangling bond density. They present a simple evaluation procedure to deduce μ<sup>0</sup>τ<sup>0</sup> from simultaneously performed SSPC and SSPG measurements. In undoped, but slightly n-type a-Si:H, the quality of the material will typically be related to the ambipolar diffusion length rather than to photoconductivity. The application of this method to a series of undoped a-Si:H films and solar cells incorporating these materials exhibited a good correlation between film properties and cell performances.
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