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Microcrystalline silicon thin films: A review of physical properties

✍ Scribed by A. Dussan; R.H. Buitrago; R.R. Koropecki


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
449 KB
Volume
39
Category
Article
ISSN
0026-2692

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✦ Synopsis


In this work we present a study of the optical, electrical, electronic and structural properties of Boron doped hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon thin films (mc-Si:H). The films were deposited in an RF plasma reactor using as reactive gas a mixture of silane and diborane, both highly diluted in hydrogen. The Boron concentration in the reactive gas was modified from 0 to 100 ppm. The addition of Boron to the silicon films not only moves the Fermi energy level to the center of the gap, but also induces changes in all the physical properties. The Boron effect on structural and morphological properties was studied by X-ray diffraction and atomic force microscopy (AFM); the rugosity and grain size increased with the Boron concentration. The absorption coefficient measured by the constant photocurrent method (CPM) at low photon energies also showed an increase, which can be explained and correlated with an increase in the density of state (DOS) in the gap, due to Boron's bonding. At high temperatures ðT4300 KÞ the controlling transport mechanism is thermally activated; the curves conductivity log versus the inverse of temperature gives straight lines. The activation energy, measured from the valence band, decreases with Boron concentration, as expected, passing through a maximum, corresponding this point to the position of Fermi energy of an intrinsic film. At low temperatures ðTo300 KÞ the predominant transport mechanism was variable range hopping (VRH). The behavior of the charge hopping under different electrical fields was followed. Results showed that conductivity remained constant in a VRH regime only for a narrow range of electrical field.


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