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ABSTRACT C u p r o u s x l de ca n b e u se dto ma k e photovoltaiccells for solar o inexpensive energyconvers{on but cormercial feasibllity depends increaslng the on co n v e r s l o n ffl cl e n cy fro m ru 1 1to 4- 6%. A newm ethod e using pr oton bombardment prcducecopperon cuprousoxide cells gave improyed to voltage but w i t h s o m e o ss i n cu me n t. L o wbom bar dment l voltagesgayebetter r esults than h i g h v o l t a g e s; A u g e rsu rfa ce a n a lysis showed this wasdue to the ior m atlon o f t h i n n e r co p p e rfi l ms a t th e su r face. Tr anginission electr on m icr oscopy a n d s e l e c t e da re a e l e ctro n d i ffra ction on thin Cur 0single cr ystals subiecte d ion bombardment showed that the Cu formedoriented epitaxial to hydrogen f i l m s o n t h e C u r0 . T h e e ffi ci e n cy of the cells has r eached 1.3%. Som e initia l w o r k u s i n g ato mi ch yd ro g e n p roduce copperon cupr ous to oxide cejls also gave t h i n n e r c o p p e rfi l ms b u t th e fi l ms wer e not unifor m. To im pr ove this condition, in t h e s u r f a c eo f th e ce l l s w e re e xamined detail by a laser scanner appar atu s . 0 t h e r w o r kwa s co n ce rn ew l th fl o at zoner efining of cupr ous d oxide, pur lflcat i o n o f c o p pe rb y zo n ere fi n i n g a nd electr or efining, and ion ir nplantation into ihat a conver sion c u p r o u s x i de . A n a n a l ysi s o f th ese r esults shows o efficiency o f 4 - 6 X l s a re a l i sti c n e a r te rm goal and that et' ficiencies of 10% gr eate r or could be reached eventually.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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B . Exp e ri me n ta l l . A p p a ra tu s Sampl 2. CrrZO es Procedure 3. Bombardment 4 . E l e ctri ca l Me a su rem ents 5. AugerPleasurements 6 . E l e ctro nMi cro sco py Resul C. Exper'lmental ts C l . Ge n e r,rl h a ra cte r f Results o it . Cument-Vol tage Characteri cs sti b . A n a l ysi s o f C u rrent- Voltage Char acter istlcs 2. E ffe ct o f V a ri a ti o n s in the Pr epar ation Cells of Bombardment by Hydrogen a. Effect of Bombardment Gas b. Effect of Beam Voltage Time c. Effeci of Bombardment Evaporated d. Superimposed Copper Layers e . E ffe ct o f B i a s Voltage f, Effect of SurfaceTreatnents g . H e a tl n go f S a mples h . E ffe ct o f V a ri a tions in Cupr ous Oxide I ) Sourceof Copper of A 2 ) S u cce ssi ve nnealing Cupr ous Oxide 3) Doped Cuprous OxideSamples 4 ) E l e ctro p l a te dCur 0
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F age 3. P h ysi ca lE xa ml n atlon Copper of Film s a . A u g e rS tu d i e s b. .SurfaceReslstivity Measurements c. Electron l'licroscope Studies Added Coatings a . A n ti re fl e cti o n Coatings b . E n ca p su l a tl o Stability Studies n 53 53 56 6l 68 70 70 74
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D . S u rma ry n d D i scu ssi o n a l . P ri n ci p a i R e su l ts ' 2, Analys.isof Hydrogen Bombardment Method a . F o rn rti o n o f Cu/Cu20 Junction Conditions the Junction b . E ffe ct o f B o mbar dment on 3 . A n a l ys{so f E l e ctrical Pr oper ties a . Ge n e ra l b . R e l a ti o n o f V o. to Bar r ier Height c. A n a l ysi so f S er ies and ShuntReslstances III. PREPAREDREDUCTI0NCurOl,lITH BY 0F CELLS AT0MIC HYDR0GEN A. I n tro d u cti o n l . Ge n e ra l i o 2. P o ssb l e R e d u cti n Methods c Ana 3. Therrnodynami lys i s
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B . Exp e ri me nlta on I . Generatl of Atoriic Hydrogen 2 , A p p a ra tu s 3 , P ro ce d u re R l C . Exp e ri me n ta l e suts ons I . GeneralObservati C 2 . T h e Op e n i rcu i t V oltage 3 , T h e S h o rt C l rcu l t Cur r ent Pr Reduction ocess 4 . T h e A to ml cH yd t.o gen i and Dlscusson D. 3unmary
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Photovoltalc cells for saiar energyconversionhave not yet reachedthe stage of wfde scale cormerclal use because econonlcfactors. of [thile several technltoo expens i v e
wlth present energysources. In this context, cuprousoxide (Cur0) to conipete l s o f i n t e re st a s a ma te ri a l fo r photovoltaiccells because is easily obtai ned it a f r c m c o p p er,a n l n e xp e n si ve n d widely available mater ial. Fur ther , Cur 0 is i and has e a s i l y p r o ce sse dn to ce 'l 'l s, p resentsno substantial toxicity pr oblems, devjce use as r ectifier s. s h o w n t a b i l i ty a n d l o n g l i fe i n conm er cial s of o C u p r ou s xi d e l s a su i ta b l e mater ial fcr photovoltaiccells because i ts r b a n dg a p , 2 .0 e V , w h i ch i s w i th i n the acceptab' leangefor so' lar ener gycon v er s i on. efficiency for Cur O > 20?',, of L o f e r s k i ( 5 ) h a s p re d i cte da p otentia' l conver sion w h i c h i s a s g o o da s th a t o f si l i con. a h o l e m o bl l i ty o f n ,1 0 0 .r2 .V -l .s- I. Cur 9is nor mallya p- type semiconduc tori th w Resistlvities as low as 60 Q.cmhavebeen
o b t a l n e db ut l o w e r va l u e s a p p e arto be possible. l'lost of the Cur0 photovoltafc cell work has beendonewith Schottky barriers in a n d h e t e r oJu n cti o n s.T h e w o rk from this labor ator y has beenpr esented IEEE r P r o c e e d l n ga n d l rr p re vi o u sD OE epor ts ( t,Z) . s Most of the wor k has beendo ne
cells preparedby therma'levaporationof Cu onto etched surfaces of wlth CulCur0 C u r 0 . l { l t h su chce l l i ; a n e ffi ci e ncy n of > l% has beenobtained. This follow s FF from the paranctersof Vo. = 0.35 V, Jr. = 7.0 mA/cm2, = 0.45 where ) theor etlcal estlmatefor n . Vo c J s F F /Pa n d P .,(A !,l l= 1 0 0 nb7cn?. A conser vative C l
lov Because the comparatively attainedefficlency, the mainresearch of effort cells wlth improved ls belngdevoted developing to efficiency. Recently methods new of preparing CulCutO cells by hydrogen bonrbardment succeeded greatly ion have in
i m p r o v i n g he V o . o f th e ce l l s, fr om 0.35 to > 0.7 V. This andsome elated r es ear c h t r arc the subJectsof this report.
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The work on the preparationof Cu/CuZ} cells by subjecting Cur0 to ion bombardment initiated near the end cf the previous contract and preliminary was r e s u l t s t o g e th e rw i th a l i te ra tur e r eviewwer e p!esented ET- 230102d) . T he ( in cells preparedby hydrogen bombardment found to have substantlally higher were o p e nc l r c ul t p o te n ti a l S , u p to 0.7 V and above,as compar ed with the 0.35 V o b t a i n e dwi th p re vi o u sC u l C u r0 e]ls pr epar ed ther m alevapor ation Cu c by of o n t o i t c h e d C u rO. D u rl n gth e p r esentcontr act, the exper imental condltion s for processwere exp'lored the bombardment further and the bombarded surfaces were e x a m i n e d d e ta i l b y A u g e ra n d electr on m icr oscopy in techniques. B. Experimenta'l I. Ap p a ra tu s. The
s y s t e m a d p re vi o u sl yb e e nu se dfor the sputter ing of oxides, and wasmodi fi ed h t o d i r e c t th e b o mb a rd l nb e a m ir ectly onto the Cur Osamples. The appar atus g d t { a s b a s e do n a V a rl a n va cu u m system with a six- inch oil diffusion pum p fitte d w l t h a l l q u l d n l tro g e n tra p . T he basepr essur e was typically 2 x lo- 5 tor r . T h e s a m p le a mb eco n si ste do f an 18 inch cylindr ical glass chamber .The ch r l o n g u n , d 2 .5 cm Io n T e chg u n (Ion Tech, Inc., Ft. Collins, Color ado) , was p b u i l t l n t o a h e a vya l u mi n u m l a te which ser vedas the top cover of the chan ber . T h e i n l e t syste m n si ste do f two contr ollable gas inlets and a ther npcoup l e co g a u g e n t he mi xi n g ch a mb eso that the com position r i and the pr essur e the of g a s m i x t u r e co u l d b e co n tro l l e d . Typically pr essur es z x 1o- 4to g x l0- 4 of torr were used.
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T h e sa mp l e g e w a sfi tte d with heatingand cocling capabilities and sta a l s o c o u l d b e ro ta te d , so a s to allow positionlng nor malto the bom bar dment b e a m n d al so i n a d i re cti o n fa cing the evapor ation a sour ce. S u i t ab l e p o w e rsu p p l i e sw er e pr ovidedfor ionization of the gas and a c c e l e r a t i o no f th e i o n s. T h e ion beam ltage vo' was var iable fr om 0 to l20OV and the ion current from 0 to 35 mA. A tungstenwire neutralizer provided e l e c t r p n s to n e u tra l i ze th e b e am . A shutter allowedcutting off the beam to control the borbardment time. Further experimental details are given in a r e c e n t t h e si s.fro m th i s l a b o ra tor y ( 3 ) . 2. S Cu 2 0 a mp l e s.
The Cur0 samples for the experiments were preparedby nrethods previously d e v e l o p e dn th i s l a b o ra to rya n d descr ibedin ear lier r epor ts ( Za;. The sta r ti ng i m a t e r i a l wa s u su a l l y h i g h p u ri ty Cu ( 99.999+ U I' IARZ adefr om M ater ials gr Cu: R e s e a r c C o rp o ra ti o n , r Ga l l a rd- Schlesinger h o high pur ity Cu) r olled into a l,' w i d e s h e e t o f t0 .0 2 0 'th i ckn e ss and usually 3" long. Thesesam pr ls wer e o x i d i z e d i n a i r a t 1 0 0 0 " C n d w er e sometimes a subjectedto an annealing ocepr d u r e , t y p i ca l l y a t 5 0 0 " C ,b e fo re quenching. The sam ples e usually usedin wer the polycrystalline form with grain sizes of T,2 nnrbut some samples were con( v e r t e d l n t o si n g l e crysta l s b y the gr aln gr owthr nethodq) . A num ber Cur 0 of
samples were preparedfrom Cu containing small arpunts of addedelementsas posslble dopants.. The coding of the samples represented a series I{-X-Y-Z is by w h e r el l i s th e i n i ti a l s o f th e p er sonwhooxidized the sam ple, is the sour c e X and lot of the Cu or the dopantused, Y is the number the lu x 3" section of c u t f r c m a l o n g sh e e t, a n d Z i s the' location of the I cm2sam ple the in secti on.
The Cur0 sheets were cut into I x I cm2samples and then were groundand p o l l s h e da cco rd i n gto p re vi o u s]ydeveloped ocedur es 2 ) . pr ( The r esistivity
of the samples was measured using ohmicaolc contacts. The top surface was t p p o l f s h e da n d e tch e d , typ i ca l l y for l0- 20 s with 8 M HN03, but other etchants w e r e t e s u eda i so . A fte r b e i n g washed water and dr ied, the sam ples e in wer lrmedlately placed in the bombardment system. 3. Bo mb a rd me n t ce d u re . P ro
U s u a l l y si x sa mp l e s e re p l acedin the sample lder ,undera m askthat w ho' e x p o s e d p o rti o n o f th e su rfa ce of eachsample the beam nor malincidenc e. a to at T h e g a s f l o w , u su a l 'l yo f H r, w a s adjusted, the ion beam was star ted, and the n of t h e s h u t t e r w a s o p e n e d a l l o w bombar dment the sam ples to for the desir ed t i r B. at T h e sa mp l e s u l d b e re moved this point, but in some co casesan addi ti onal
c o p p e rl a y e r w a s a p p l i e d b y th e rmalevapor ation. This wasdoneby r otating the s a m p l e o l d e r i n a d i re cti o n to face the evapor ation h sour ce. The evapor ate d co p p e rl a y e r w a s so me ti mea p p l i ed over the entir e sur face, usually then < 60 A s thick, but moreconmonly througha maskto provide fingers for better contact. voltages, beam currents and bombardment A wlde rangeof beam tlmes were tr i e d . T y pi ca l co n d l ti o n sfo r p repar inga goodce]' l wer e 250 V bombar dment
cu v o l t a g e , 1 5 mAi o n b e a m rre n t, and a bombar dment e of 75 s. tim app' licationof a bias voltage to O t h e r r ra ri a ti o n sth a t w e re tr fed inc' luded d t h e s a m p l es u ri n g b o mb a rd me nt' heatingof the sam ples betor e or after bom bar dtt t e n t ,a p p l l ca ti o n o f a n tl re fl e cti on coatings, encapsu' lation the cel ls, etc . of 4, El e ctrl ca l Me a su re me nts.
I sti b The dark characteri cs of the ceJ s wereme a s u re d y re c o rd in g t h e I -V c u r y e so n a n X -Y re co rd e ru si n g an applied bias o f -5 t o + 1 0 V . T h e p h o t o v ol t a i c by i response was then measured exposng the cel l t o Ml i 1l u min a t i o n p ro v i d e d b y
q a n E L H u a rtz-ta l o g e na mpca l i b r ated by a NASA l standar dsi' licon cell. T h eme a su re meo ft th e su rface r esistivity of the thin Cu sur facefi1m s n w a sd o n eo n b o mb a rd e d rfa ce so f Cur O high bulk r esistivity. su of The contac ts
w e r e t w o p a ra l l e l stri p s o f e va por ated go1d" The sur face r esistivity was m e a s u r ea fte r va ri o u s b o n rb a rd m ent es and sometimes d tim this was done,,in situ,,. 5. AugerMeasurements A number rept'esentative of hy cel'ls p;'epareC hydrogen bombardment were e x a m i n e b y A u g e rsu rfa ce a n a 'i ;sis techniques d using a PhysicalElectr onics M o d e l5 4 9 i nstru me n t(O ). S u rfaceanalyses wer einade and depth pr ofi]es wer e
A v a r i ety o f e 'l e ctro nmi cro scqpic techniques wer e usedto exam ine the mo r p h o l o gof th e su rfa ce sp ro d u ced hydr ogen y by (7 bombar dment ) . Thesein-
c l u d e d s c a nn i n g l e ctro n mi cro scopy, ansm ission e tr electr on micr oscopy of p l a t i n u ms h a d o w eca rb o nsu rfa ce r eplicas ( 8 ) anOdir ect tr ansmission d eJect r on m i c r o s c o p of i o n th i n n e d si n g l e c r ystal samples. The last technique oved y pr m o s t u s e f u l.
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dark and light I-V curves for an evaporated 2A shows cell and Figure 28 shows I - V c u r v e sfo r a h yd ro g e n d u ced re cell. In addition to the higher Vo. and factor . Another
feature to be noted is the very low foruard and reverse currents l:r the dark f o r t h e h y dro g e n d u ce d l l . re ce Illumination causes gr eat change the shape a in
o f t h e I - V c u rve fro m d a rk to l i g ht for the hydr ogeneduced r cell, while the c h a n g es r e l a ti ve l y sma l l fo r the ther mallyevapor ated i cell. ' l , l h l l e th e se g e n e ra lo b se rvations e fair ly r eliab]e, ar the detailed exper l m e n t a lr e s ul ts w e re fo u n d to va ry consider ably that only tentative conclus i ons so var c o u l d b e d r a w nfro m o th e r e xp e ri menta' l iations. The r epr oducibility of the re s u l t s i s il l u stra te d b y T a b l e 2 . The pair ed r esults ar e fr om sam p' les of plate and processed from the same together to makethe cells. Cur0made The Vo.
v a l u e sw e r e fa i rl y re p ro d u ci b l ei n the pair s' the lar gest var iation being 0.0 43 V. The .lr. valrreswere variable, up to 0.5 nA/cm2. Fromone run to another, the v a r l a t l o n s we re su b sta n ti a l l y g re ater so that cor r elations shou' ld m ade y he onl b e t w e e n l o se l y si mi l a r sa mp l e s. c T h e b e st va l u e so f V o ., Jsc and fill factor ar e shown Tab' le3, as obin
Further improvements Jr. were bombardment. tained on cells after hydroEen in finger s and antir eflection coatings, as o b t a i n e db y a p p l i ca ti o n o f co n d u ction cells wlth the best efflciencles for hydr og en s h o w nn T a bl e 4 . T a b l e 5 sh o w s l re d u c e d e l l s. c i fr" b e st i n d i vi d u al ce' ll efficiency shown Table 5 is l.ZlX. in
)
However, one takes the best attained individua'l va'luesof the parameters if of V J r . = 5 . 2 8 m A /cm', o c -- 0 .7 2 V a nd FF = 0.6r or wouldar r ive at an efficiency o f 2 . 3 X . T he o re ti ca le sti ma te so f the efflciency yield valuesof l3X or mor e .
t h Ar&ri
Flgure 2A. CurrenE-voltage curve for a typlcal Cu/Cu2Ocell prepared by ther:ural evaporatl-on of Cu.
-1
-o-_
0 .4
o. 6 V ( v olt s )
a-
1.50
P oi nl A
G|
E t \ ( E
Y
o.75
rF C
lD
o
t
a C)
Dork
-0.1 5
o.f5
0.30
0.45
0.60
o.75
V ol l ogr
(vol fs)
0.9 o
'0.75
PrePared by hydrogen
l0
TABTE - Illustratlon
L
of the Reproduclbtltty
of
S i mi l ar
S ampl es of Bombardment
iu/Cu^O Photovoltaic Reslstlvlty of Cu20 (Q'cm) 287 500 1 000 662 ' 526 398 516 340 339 435
Sanple DLF-mVI-17-Dz
DLF-nVI-l-7-F DLF-mVT-20-A DLF-mVT-20-F DLF-nVII-05-C DLF-mVII-05-D DLF-nVI I-05-G DLF-mVII-05-H DLF-mVII-07-J DLF-nVII-07-K. DLF-mVT-??-D DLF-mVI-22-E DLF-A1-II-04-B DLF-A1-II-04-C AB- Zn-I I-02-Al AB-Zn-II-02-B AB- Zrt-II-05-A AB- Ztr- II-05-82 AB-Pb.III-04-81 AB.Pb.III.O4-D DLF-Sb-II-02-B
Hydrogen ' Bombardment Voltage (VoIts) 250(-275 V Blas) 250(-27 5 V Btas) 100(-60 V Btas) 100 (-50 V Bias ) 250(-230 V Bias) 250(-230 v Bias) 250(-230 V Bias) 250(-230 V Btas) 250 (- 230 V Btas ) 250 (-2 30 V Btas ) 250(-220 V Btas) 250 (-22O V Btas) 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 '.
.exP (s) 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75
Jsc (*A/cn2) voc (Volt s) ' 1. 61 L.7 4 1. 05 0. g7 1. 55 1. 91 1. 63 1. 30 L.7 2 L. 71 0. 61 0. 41 1. 83 2. 05 2. 49 2.24 2.50 2.7 6 2. 45 2, 65 1. 60 2. 10
rrt
o . 6 74 0. 632 0.637 0. 651 0. 555 0.696 0.685 0. 655 0.640 0 .6 4 1 o .6 2 7 0.587 0 . 62 7 0. 560 0 . 54 3 0 . 64 9 0 . 63 2 0. 670 0. 665 0.653 0.647
59s
964 L64 180 224 148 267 371 ' 150 138 250 274
DLF-Sb-rr-o2-c2
2s0 250
*a^.-r exP
Time of
expogure
to
hydrog,en bombardment .
11
Table3
List of the Cu/Cur0 Cells Prepared Hydrogen by Bombardment l'lhichGavethe Best Valuesof Jsc, Vo. and FF
Resistivity Bomba rdment Voltage (trolts )
Sampl e
A.
of CurO (n.c m)
vo. (vot ) ts
RI-3 l0 B' RI-3 03 C RI-3 l0 C AB-Zn- I I -05- 82 RI GS-I I D F L - m I - 04 -H VI RI-3 II B R I- 3 0 3 E ' AB-Zn- I I -05- Bz AB-Ln-I I-02-B AB-CdF I I -02'C 2I AB - P b -I I -0 4 -D D L F - AI - I II-0 4 -C D L F - m V I-1 4 -A
.'
407 607 298 371 l 2 s7 317 462 263 371 148 290 138 796 539
2s0
250 250 250 2s0 ?50 250 250
7s
75 75 75 75 75 75 75
3.22 3..|3 3.07 3. 04 3. 03 3.00 2.96 2.89 2,76 2 ,66 2.65 2.65 2,61 2,56
0. 585 0. 560 0. 585 0.626 0. 580 0. 630 0. 534 0. 650 0.632 0. 565 0. 390 0.665 0.575 0.6J3
2s0
250 500 250 250 250
7s
75 90
7s
75 60
B. C e l l s w i th B e st V o . V a lu e s: D L F - S i 0 4 -B - VD L F - m V I -1 9 -G I. D L F - Pb I -0 3 .8 D L F - Pb - V-0 4 -C D L F - m VI7-H I D L F - m V I I-0 1 -B DLF-mVI?6-G DLF-mVI -20-D 341 298 160 252 282 313 ?91 536 250 254 250 250 100 750 250 250
7s
75 90 75 75 75 75
I.gg
| ,20
.|.13 0.62 1.65 l.l0 l.59
I .93
a.720 0 .7 1 6
0.710 0. 709 0.7a7 0,7a4 0. 703 0.702
7s
( continued )
12
Ta b le 3
(contlnued ) L l st o f th e C u /C u ZCelI s Prepared Hydrcgen 0 by Bombardment l,lhch Gavethe Bes Values of Jsc, V and FF i t oc
R es l s tl v l t y of C urO
Sampl e
"exp (s)
sc (rnA/cmz )
vo.
( Volts ) F i tl Fffi-r
(n.c m)
c.
: C e lI s w lth B e st F l I 1 F a cto rs 150 250 240 180 90 2.27 2. 38 J.23 0.697 0.690 0.600
1s1
176
2sa
500
0. 55 0. 55 0. 54
13 T a b l e4
Evaporated l'fetal (Cu, Au Fi nger sand Sl0r ) Ih. Effect of Applylns Antirefl ectl on Coati on the Parametersof Cul ngs ar Cur 0Sol CelI s
Yo. (v)
0. 640 0.623 0.623 0.523 0. 498 0 .497 0. 548 0.5.| 2 0.500 0.572 0. 500 0.495 0. 550 0. 480 0 .475 0. 505 0 .475 0.477 0.6.|8 0. 593 O.58B
Jsc (rnA/cmz ) 2.620 3. 023 3. 932 3. 050 4..|36 5.284 2.240 3. 909 4. 834 1 .928 2,750 4. 050 2. 300 3.270 4. 090 2.746 3. 489 4.390 2. 580 2,9:2 3 .890
FF 0. 360 0. 496 0,476 0.303 0.393 0.364 0.274 0.40 0 0.38.| 0. 368 0. 360 0. 32 5 0.355 0. 34 .| 0.31 3 c.?87 0. 349 0. 336 0.356 0. 476 0.435
R (%)
0.604 0.935 J .J 67 0.484 0.8.| 0 0.956 0.337 0 .800 0,921 0.406 0.494 0.651 0.449 0. 535 0. 609 0. 398 0.578 0. 704 0. 567 0.825 0.994
5 -c
R I-3 -1 0 -C
5 -c
RI-3 -JJ-C
220
Cu- f ARC
1 -b
2060 'l378
A u -f ARC A u -f ARC
l-b
5-d
I 6 04
Au- f ARC
5-a
R I-3 0 4 C
280
A u -f ARC
988
Au-f ARC
S e eT a b l e sl 98 a n d 'l 9 C
**
l4
Table5
The Parameters the Best Cul Cur0CelI s 0btained by of Ion of Hydrogen Reduction CurO.
vo.
(n ' c m )
452 380 300 298 280 2 20
(v)
0.6.|6 0. 578 0.623 0 .497 0.588 J. 500
Jra ,, (nil/cmt )
FF
n (s)
I .213 0.908 I .167 0. 956 0.994 0.9?1
15
b . A n a l .vsl s f C u rre n t-V oltage o Char acter istics. Because the lar ge of d l f f e r c n c e s fro m p re vl o u sC u /C ur 0 Schottkybamier photovoltaiccells, it is e v l d e n t t h at a n e wmo d e l s re q ulr ed. The outlines of a possiblemodelwer e g i v e n l n t h e p re vi o u sn e p o rt (2 d) on the hydr ogeneduced r cells. In this
junction m d e l l t l s p o stu l a te dth a t th e J unctlon in these cells is a Cu/Cur 0 r b l n w h l c ht h e C u i s p ro d u ce d y chemical eCuction the Cur O hydr ogen s of bV ion that ther e is a hlgh r esistancelntr i nbe l n t h e b o mb a rd me n ta m. It i s assum ed th s l c l a y e r of C u r0b e tw e e n e C u and the bulk Cur 0, and that thls layer is produced penetration of some hydrogen this depth in amounts to insufficient by is or to causereduction. The effect of the hydrogen to remove compensate t h e a c c e p to rs a t a re n o rma l l ypr esentin p- type Cur O. The intr insic layer th fo i s r e s p o n s i b l e r th e h l g h re si stanceof the cells at low voltagesin the photoconducting the high r esi s and d a r k . U n d e rl l l u ml n a ti o n th e i a yer becom es gr of so ta n c e d i s a p p e a rs, th a t th e sh ape the I- V cur ve changes eatly. Som e fu r t h e r d e t a i l s o n th e mo d e la re given in the pr eviousr epor t ( 2d) but mor e w o r k i s r e q u i re d . mo!' e conventional analy s es of Pe n d i ng rth e r d e ve l o p me nt this model,some fu CulCur0 will be attemptedhere. An energybanddiagramfor a conventiona'l j u n c t i c n i s sh o w nn F i g u re 3 . A pr oposed diagr am r for the hydr ogeneduced i c e l l s i s g i ve n i n F i g u re 4 . i n t h e t w o typ e s o f ce l l s.
Th e I- V characteristics of th e h y d ro g e nre d u c e dc e lls we re e x a min e da t
in h i g h v o l t a ge sa n d o n e se t o f d a ta is shown Figur e 5. The limiting slope at h l g h v o l t a ge syl e l d s a va l u e fo r the cell ser ies r eslstance' in this case 12.8 A. to The dark current JO can be assumed be given by the diode equation Jd '' Jo [exp( qv/nkr-) l]
(l )
l6
Cu M e to f
Cu ZO Semicond ct or u
Econduction
Serniconduclor
Eg
Bondgop
E orr i e r Heig h t
Qo
ra -
tr r-
- Fermi
V o le n c e
Flgure 3 .
17
Cu ZO
f
E Ferrni Evo le n ce
No Bi o
E Fernrl Evotence
Low Bios
Hish
E F e rm i E V o le n c e
B i os
Flgure 4.
P a rt l a l e n e rg y band d l agram f or the C u/ C u20 sys E em of the prcrposed l ntrl nsl c w h l c h s h o w s che effect (B ) unul er l ow bi as, (A ) w l thout bl as, Cu20 layer condl gl ons. (C ) u n d e r hl gh btas vol tage and
IB
o.40
J (a /cm"')
o.30
o, 2o
Dork
o.l o
l2 .g _o
R3
|,2.7 -o-
2.5
5.O
7.5
lo.o
V (votts)
Flgure 5i
Of a hydrogen l on reduced curves, C u rre n t-v o l ta g e l n che dark and under l l l urnC u / C u 2 0 c e 1 l , measured for the P urpose o u E to hi gh appl l ed vol tages i n a tl o n o f c a l c u l a c to n of the serLes res i .scance and the barheighc. ri e r
1e
rhere V ls the Junctlon potenilal VJ = .a - IR, obtalned correcting the appl by i ed voltagefor the dropacross the series resistance, is the el ectr oni char ge, q
c
Jo = A**T2exp(q6o/rr)
e)
w h e r eA** l s 1 2 0A /cn ? .f2 , th " bar r ier height 0g can be evaluated. Bar r ler h e l g h t s of 0 .5 8- 7 0 e V w e reo b tainedby this m ethod. T h e no n -l d e a l l ty fa cto r i s given by n = (q /kT )dvj/cId) ( 3)
a n d c a n b e e va l u a te dfro m th e s lope. Valuesof 12- 59 wer e obtainedwhichar e q u i t e u n usu a l mp a rew i th va luesof I - 2 for near ly idea' l diodes. co d An o th e ra p p ro a ch a t w a s tr ied was that of light biassing. Figur e 7 s how s th a p l o t o f l n Jr. vs. V o . fo r var ious lisht intensities. Sir nllar analyses f o t h l s t y p e o f d a ta g a vea b a rri e r height of 0.60 eV and an n- value of 4.6. The b a r r l e r h e l g h ts p re vi o u sl yme a sur ed Cu/Cur 0 on cells pr epar eci evapor ate d by C u t o p l a ye rs h a d va l u e so f 0 .6 5- 0.70 eV ( la,Za) , whjchar e similar to
those npasured for the cells formedby hydrogen bombardment discussedabove. as However, the present treatment is clearly inadequate and a moreextended treatnent wlll be necessary.
2, E ffect of V arlations in t h e P re p a ra t io n o f Ce lls b v H d ro g e n Bomba rdmen t
determl the opti mum ne cond ti ons. i e. Effe ct o f B o mb a rd me nt The effect of hydr ogen Gas. bombar dment cur O, of
20
-2
#
c J
I.O
2.O
4.O
vj
5.O ( volts)
6.O
7.O
Flgure 6..
Plot of the natural log of the dark current (ln J6) versus the corrected voltage (V5, where Vl = Vmeasured-IR Series) made from the current-volEage curv6 of. a Cu/Cu20 cell formed by hydrogen ion bornbardment, such as shown in Flgure 7, and used to determlne Jo and the barrier height.
*,
Et'
*
i.'
li', ' t; g.
)1 '
21
"i o E
C'
o.l
o,2 vo.
o.3
( volts)
0.4
Flgure ,7.
currenl: Plot of the natural log of the short-clrcult (ln J"g) versua the open-clrcul.t voltage (Vo") measured under-varlous light lntensitl.es from a Cu/Cu20 ce11 formed by hydrogen ion'bombardrnent and used to deterheight mlne Jo and the barrlei
22
as already implied, was to reducethe top surface of the CurOto Cu. This was v e r i f i e d b y l ) vi su a l o b se rva ti on Cu film s pr oduced of with sufficient tr eatrr : n t t i m e , 2 ) fo rma ti o no f re cti fying junctions, 3) Augeranalysis, and 4 ) a n a l y s i s b y e l e ctro n d i ffra cti on. Pr evious wor k ( lO) naa establishedthat
CurOcould be reducedby atomlc hydrogen. The rgaction should be expectedto be evenmorefavorable with lonized hydrogen. Fromthermodynamics can one + + c a l c u l a t e t h a t fo r th e re a cti o n Cur O( s) ZH+ ( g) Ze- = 2Cu( s)+ HZ0( 9) , A G "( 2 9 8 ) = -7 4 4 .'l kca l .mo ]-], So that one can conclude K that the r eaction w is h i g h l y f a vo ra b l e . P re vi o u s or k ( tt) naa also establishedthat Cur 0could w b e b o m b a r d e di th A rg o ni o n s w i th out leaving Cu on the sur face, and this was fo u s e dt o s p u tte r-e tchC u rO r A u geranalysis. th I t w a s co n ce i va b l e a t mi xtur esof H, and Ar might r esult in par tial C with s p u t t e r i n g w h i l e l e a vi n g so me u on the sur face. Bom bar dment Ar + alone any r ectifying or photovoltaicjunctions . a t 5 0 0 V a n d a t 1 0 0 0V d i d n o t p roduce j in M l x t u r e o f H, a n d A r p ro d u ce du n ctions as shown Table 6. Howeverthe ,
Ar re s u l t s t e n d e dto b e p o o re r fo r mixtur eswith 80- 90% . Ther edid not appear gas. to to be any advantage the use of Ar in the bombardment ,b. Effect of Beam ion bombardment Voltaqe. The voltage of the hydrogen in b e a m a s v a r i e d u p to 1 0 0 0V . A s shown Tab' le7, this had ver y little w o n t h e Vo . of th e ce l l s. effec t
with H o w e verit was foundthat the Jr . decr eased , It wasconcluded that the
in vo h i g h e r b o m ba rd me n tl ta g e sa s shown Figur e 8.
wor b e s t v o l t a g e w a s 2 5 0 V a n d th i s w as usedmost often in subsequent k. Lower v o l t a g e sg a v ep o o re rre su l ts. voltage on Jr . is fo A p l a u s i b l e e xp l a n a ti o n r the effect of bombar dment that the higher voltage allowed deeperpenetration of the hydrogen,thus producing the llght tr ansm ission lnto the t h l c k e r C u f il ms w h i ch i n tu rn w oulddecr ease C u r o ,y i e l d i ng a l o w e r Jr.. is A n o therpossibleexplanation that the continui ty
23
TAEIE 6'
VarLous H-Ar
Gas Mlxtures*
Sam 1e
H ( z)
50 50 20 20 10 10 10
Ar ("A)
sc (nA/cm,)
voc
V ol ts)
50
l. 9 8 l. 9 4 2.08 2.O4 0. 26 0. 37
5o
80 80 90 90 90
A11 cells
were PrePared under the normal bombardment condl tl ons snd 75 I bombardmenE ti me.
of
24
TABLE 7
VarLance
ln
Vo" w l th of
B ombardment V ol rage
U sed in
P re p a ra ti o n
C u/ C u^ 0 C el l s z B ombardment (V ol ts V ol tase
(f)'
"6)
oc
(V ol ts)
Art
1250 r0q0
750 500 25A
I *:t I-01-E DLF-mVI DLF-mVII-01-G DLF-rnVII-01-B I-01-J DLF-nrVI I-01-H DLF-mVI 319 259 313 298 229 1250 1000 750 500 250
'TDLF-MV-I
at
rt* DL F- 6VI I - 01
\ \
l.l
\ c\| \ \
E (,
E v
f.o
o\
C'
a?
o.g
o.8
07
r||
250
Figure I
(Js" ) w l C h current .Va rL a ti o n o f C he short-ci rcuLt used l n the preparatl on of th e b o mb a rd me nE vol tage l on bombardmenE . by hydrogen CulCu^0 cells
L
26
o f t h e c u f l l m l s l e ss u n d e rh i g her bombardrnent tages voJ . Effect of Bombardrnent Ti rne. The I ength of time of bomb,ardment d woul b e c e r t a i n l y e xp e cte d h a veso m e to effect but the effect is not obvious,.9 . t h e f i l m t h i ckn e ssma yre a cha l i miting value with longer exposur e timesr i.d th e t h i c k n essa n d co n ti n u i ty o f the film s m ayhaveopposite effects especial l ,y on Jr. Preliminary experiments had shown that bombardment times of less than 45 s g a v ee r r a t i c re su l ts a n d o fte n n o photovo' ltaic effectr ur less Cu finger s were a p p l i e d . I n a syste ma ti ci n ve stigation at shor t exposur e es, it tim was found p o s s i b l e t o o b ta i n so me , u t p o o r , photovoltaicr esponse b for bom bar dment times a s s h o r t a s 1 5 s. T h l s i s sh o w n Table 7, TableA for 1000v and Table in B for 250V. Theseresults showthat the J.. values decrease the bombardment as tlme ls decreased. The Vo. was morelrregular but showed some tendencyto decrease wlth shorter bombardment tlme. L o n g e rb o mb a rd meti me s w e re also tr ied, up to 15 min. Table g shows nt a c o m p a r i s oo f ce l l s ma d e y 1 5 mi n bombar dment cells pr epar ed n b with at 60- 90 s on s i m i l a r C u t0 sa mp l e s. T h e ce l l s pr epar ed 15 min showed at both lower Vo. a nd lower ,1r.. HoYever, the Jr. values were not as low as mlght havebeenexpected f ro m t h e t h i cke r C u fi l ms, sh o w n Augermeasur ements. possible by A explanation ls t h a t t h e l mp ro ve d n ti n u l ty o f the thicker film s tendedto counter act co ln pa r t t h e e f f ect o f re d u ce di g h t transm ission. l Fromthe experlments,the optimum bombardment was chosento be 75 s time a n d t h l s w a s u se di n mo st o f th e o ther exper iments. Suoerimposed Evaporated cooperLavers. It was postulatedthat the good effects of hydrogen bombardment, high Vo.r could be attained with a very i.e. short bombardrnent time, and the better current collection could be achievedwith a n e v a p o r a t ed u o ve rl a ye r. A se ri es of r esults ar e shown Table 9 on C in cells d. c.
27
TABLE.&A -
Effect of short Bombardment Tirnes under 1000 v Bombardment Voltage on Cu/CurQ Cells* Reststtvtty
of
Sa
1e
(n. c6)
525 234 293 742 494 49L
4s 4s
30 30 1.5 15
TABLE 88 -
Effect Voltage
Sa
1e
exP s) 50 50 45 45 25 25 15 15
after
sc (mA/ cm
V ol ts
DLF-Pb- III.-05-D DI,F-Mg DLF-nV-11-K DLF-CuFr-III-03-C DLF-nVII-03-C DLF-Si-V-04-B DLF-mVI-14-D DLF-In-I-0l-C *Flngers were a p p l te d
28
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whlch were made wlth bottbardment times of 5 - 30 s and followed inmediately b y c h e m l c al va p o ra ti o n f a C u fllm of 50- 60 I tnickness. It is seer rthat e o th e . J r . v a lu e sa re h l g h e r th a n values pr eviouslyobtainedwith shor t bombar dmenttimes without Cu overlayers but no higher than cells prepared with normal bombardment times. The Vo. values tendedto be lower than norma'l hydrogen reducedcells but somewhat higher than expectedfrom cells preparedby thermal e v a p o r a t l o n l o n e . T h e I-V ch a racter istics of a cell of this type is shown a in F i g u r e 9 . T h e secu rve sre se mb l e those of the evapor ated cell shown Figure in re in 2 A m o r et h a n th e h yd ro g e n d u ced.cellshown Figur e 2Br espcially in the a b s e n c e f th e ve ry h i g h re si sta ncein the dar k. This suggests o that the high r e s i s t a n c ein tri n si c l a ye r h a d b eenavoidedto som e extent. th I n g e ne ra 'l t a p p e a rs a t the r esults of these cells wer e inter mediate i reduced cells and the evaporated cel'ls. A between those of the hydrogen p o s s i b l ee x p l a n a ti o ni s th a t th e Cu film s pr oduced hydr ogen by bombar dmener e wt Cu d l s c o n t l n u ou s n d th a t th e e va p or ated films wer e ab' leto contact the Cur 0 a d i r e c t l y t h r o u g hh o l e s i n i n i ti a l Cu films. The r esu' ltson the composite l s cel
depending the r elative ar eas contacted. on ki th e n w o u l db e so me n d o f a ve ra ge w o T h i s i s r e mi n i sce n t f so me o rk on back- wallCulCur }r ectifier s by Br attain ( 12) whodlscussedthe modelof a patchy Junction. e. the exper im ents emade wer with the E f fe ct o f B i a s V o l ta q e . Nor m ally
were nndewith at samples grounddurlng borbardment.A series of experiments a b i a s v o l t a g e a p p l i e d to th e sa mple. lt shouldbe r ecalled that the ions af ter belng formd and acceleratedwere largely neutra'lizedby the neutralizer section may beam of the gun. Therefore, the effect of bias voltage on the composlte n o t b e e a s il y p re d i cte d . i Ex p e r in n n ta l l y t w a s fo u n d that a positive bias tendedto r educethe Jr. in in o f t h e c e l i s a n d p o ssi b l y a l so th e Vo., as shown Table 10. As shown Tabl e
TABLE 9
Ph o to v o l ta l .c Bombardnent
Result,s on CulCurO Cells prepared with Tlmes and wlth Evaporated Cu Overlayers
Shorr
exP s
SC
,r
vo i
Volts )
nA/"t"
296 201 . L76 L62 246 2220 929 929 830 L62 208 929 893 244 . 196 233 3960 198 L62
1000 1000 r.000 500 500 500 250 250 250 250 250 250 25A 250 250 250 250 250 250
30 1,0 10 15 10 10 20 t5 15 15 15 10 10 10 10 10 5 5 5
1. 0g 1. 18 1. 08
0. 560 0.540 0. 525 o.270 o.377 0. 513 0. 443 0. 340 0. 350 0. 280 0. 575 0. 455 0. 335 0. 500 0.350 0. 553 0. 400 0. 380 0. 360
1. 23 1.59 1. 38
DLF-nIV-03-D DLF-nLV-03-D DLF-nIV-03-H DLF-Pb-I.03-D1 DLF-Pb-r-03-C DLF-mIV-03-D DLF-nIV-03-J DLF-Pb-I-03-A DLF-Pb-III-05-B DLT.Pb-III-05.F DLF-nIV-03-B DLr-Pb- r-03-B DLF-Pb-I-03-E
1. 03 1. 45 1. 32 1.33 1. 18 2. L3 1. 15 1, g5 L. 57 2. 10 0. 45 1. 13 L.7 2
31
f .50
o.75
Light
- o. I 5
o.60
-' o.75
- I.50
-2.?5
F lgur e
of a C ul C u2O cel l characterl sti cs C u rre n t,-V o 1 tn g e fo rm e d b y a s h ort exposure to hydrogen i on bombardof an evaporated C u overby addl tl on n e n g fo l l o w e d l a y e r.
32
ll'
n e g a t l veb i a s, u n d e rth e co nditionstr ied, did not degr ade the Vo., but s om e
small decreaseln Jr. could be noted. Anotherseries of experiments were performed w l t h l o w e r b o mb a rd me n tl ta g e sand with negativeblas. As seentn Table 12 , vo t h l s g a v el o w e r Jr.. b u t th e vo , valueswer e less affected. In sur mar y,it a p p e a r e dha t th e a p p l i ca ti o n o f bias voltage did not yield any im pr ovem ent. t
f. Surface Treatmen'!s. In the pr epar ati of cu/cur OcelI s by thenna l on
e v a p o r a t i on ,i t w a s fo u n d th a t etching of the Cur 0fo' l' lowed heating in a by Y a c u u m{ a sn e ce ssa ry o b ta i n goodcells. v to In the case of the cells pr oduc ed
by hydrogen the bombardment, surface treatmentwas less important but some the damaged face' left by po' lishing. sur e t c h i n g w a s n e ce ssa ry re mo ve to T a b l e l 3 sh o w s su l ts o n c e' lls made bombar dment sam ples polis hed re by of as w i t h 3 p o r 0 .0 5 u a 'l u mi n a . It is seenthat Jr . and Vo. ar e lower than nor mal with the finest polish,0.05 p. a n d t h a t t h e V o . w a s h i g h e st fo r the sam ples T a b l e 1 4 s ho w s su l ts'o n p a i re d sam ples re whichwer e tr eated with differ ent sam ples but the e t c h a n t s . T h e re su l ts w e ren u ch better than for unetched th d i f f e r e n c esb e tw e e n e e tch a n tswer e not gr eat in most cases. The Jr . was etch alone while the final NaCN better for the 8 M HN03 etch gave sonewhat a s l i g h t l y b e tte r V o . va l u e s. T a ble l5 shows com par ison samples of etchedw i th ( N a C lo n l y (A ) w i th sa mp l e s tch edin HN03 B) . The HN0,etchant appear s be { e to superi or. po' V e r y go o dsu rfa ce sca n b e o btainedby com bined lishing- etching whic h in t h e e t c h a n t i s u i e d a s a l u b ri ca nt on the polishing pad. Resultson sam ples p r e p a r e d n th i s ma n n ea re sh o v nin Table 16. The r esults ar e ver y good, r i the e s p e c i a l l y fo r V o ., a n d i n th e caseof NaCN, addition of the polishing d u r i n g e t c h i n g w a s b e n e fi ci a l . goodresults were obtainedw{th that reasonably In general lt appeared etchant, so that this was chosenfor nnst of the experiments. the 8 tl HN03
33
TABLE J,O
Prepared by Hydrogen
Bombardment with
Sa
1e
sc ,) (urA/crn 1. 45
voc
(V ol ts)
DLF-Sn-I-02-B
0. 656
DLF-rnV-17-K
1. 53
0. 488
L.7 3 0,2g
0,497 0. 495
DLF-rnVI-18-C
0. LJ. 0. 58
0.460 0. 613
DLF-Sn-I-02-A
DLF-nVI-18-F
0.50
0. 573
* All
of these cells
34
TABLE 11
Cu/Cu,r0 Cells Prepared by Hydrogen Bombardment z NegatLve Bias Voltages on the Sanple * t
1e DLF-nVI-17-F DLF-nVI-17-H DLF-mVT-20-D DLF-nVI-22-A DLF-nVT-26-F DLF-nVII-05-D DLF-Pb-V-04-C DLF-Sl.-V-04-B DLF-Si-V- 04-D2 DLF-Sn-I-02-D
Reslsttvity of CurO (0. efi) 500 282 536 L366 42L 398 252 34L 235 4L7
B J.as V ol tage (V o 1t s)
voc
V ol ts)
o.67 4 0.700 o.7 02 0. 689 0.708 0. 655 0. 709 4.7 20 0, 698 0.705
rJere prepared under the normal bombardment condltlons and 75 s bombardment tlne.
these cel1s were among the samples vtith were made on successively anneaLed Cur0.
the highest
oc
val ues,
35
TASLE T2,
CulCuoO Cell.s Prepared by Hydrogen Bombardment at Low lVoltage and wLth Negati.ve Applted BLas Voltages on the Samples
Sanple DLF-nVI-25-B
t.* (s)
JV
1330 L800
75
150
-6 0 -6 0 -6 0 -6 0 -7 5 -7 5 -37 5
L50
llr-Pb-rv-04-B
DLF-nVT-20-A
75
DLF-nVT-20-F
75
DLF-nVT-?O-C
75
DLF-mVT-20-H
7s
75
DLF-nVI-I-7 -H
It
voc
that
used contributed
to thLs.
36
TABTE 13 -
of cu/curO cerls prepared by Hydrogen goubardrnent of As-Pollehed CurO Sanples prepared l{Lthout characterlstics Chenl.cal Etchl.ng
ResLstlvtty
of Cu20 Bombardment O. c m ) /o l ta ge (V ol ts) exP . oc V ol ts
El C
Sample
mA/cmo
0. 63 0. 45 0. g0 1,0 0. 64 0.56 0. 15 0. 37
3 3 0. 05 3 3 3 0. 05 0. 05
37
TABTEL4 'Effe c ts Ce1ls of Va rl ous E tchants Ln the P reparaE l on of
C u/ C urO
by Hydrogen
Bornbardment*
Sarnple
E tchl ng Ti me(s)
exP sc (s ) (mA/cm2)
voc
(V ol ts )
DLF-mV-10-J2 DLF-nV-10-J1
227 227
15 15 30 L0 15 20 10 10 t5 20 10
90 90
1. 96 L.7 2
0. 595 0. 590
371 2L7
75 75
3. 04 2.2L
0.626 0.693
L20 120
1. g2 1.49
0. 595 0.607
75
o.g2
0.694
0.709
T\so 15 s etches
One 20 .75 1.75 s+ fi ro 5 s etches
DLF-rnVT-24-Hrtrt DLF-pVT-24-Glt*
277 210
10
Treo 15
75
1.83
0.67 5 0. 5gg
s+
2t4 N aC N , 57"NH3 DLF-Sb-Zn-I-04-C 322 DLF-Sb-Zn-I-04-A 388 AB-Mg-II-03-Bl AB-Mg-II-03-ClA 322 797
8M HNOg 8M HNO3r 57,,NaCl 8l'l HNOg 8M H N O3, 5Z LlCl lll
NaCN
* All
a bombardment voltage
of 250 V.
** These Cu20 saurpleg were successLvely hlgher voltages than the other
dlsplay
5oooc.
38
TABLE
Effect Cells
of
NaCN Etchants
in
the
Preparatlon
of CulCurO
by Hydrogen
Bombardment*
Results on Samples Prepared with NaCN Etchants Resistlvlty of Cu,r0 (o. cf ) tu 300 J
Sanple
Et,ching TLne ( s
exP
s
sc mA/crn 0. 94
oc ol ts
DLF-mVII-13-C
57. Mg
20 10 L5 60 60
95
0.567
zlq NaCN, 5Z Mg
75 60 60
1. 28 L. 88 2. 03
Results
with
HNO3 Etchant
tu tu
300 300
6 6 5
tu.300
50 tu1.70
39
T
TABLE 16
Effect
of PolLsh-Erching
I
Preparatlon
of Cu/CuoO Cells
Results
on sanples Polish-Etched
Resls tLvLty of Cu"O (f,I'cfi)
wlrh NacN
Sarnple
Etchant Used
Etchtng TLme (s )
DLF-mVI.-25-D DLF-Pb.IV-04-C
569 851
90 90
75 75
1.10 1.09
0. 580 0. 650
Rasul te on Sltntlar
Samples wlth
851 649
10 10
50 75
1.34 1. 50
0.700 0. 6gg
prepared wlth
a250V
bombardment voltage.
40
9.
e v a p o r a t i o n 'a p re -h e a ta t l 0 0 o Cfor l0 min is necessar y obtain goodcells. to Presumably thls ls necessary remove to water vapor or other adsorbed gases. Slmilar treatmentswere tried with the cells preparedby hydrogen bombardment. I n t h e fi rst se ri e s o f e xp er im ents, cell was pr epar ed mallywithout a nor p r e - h e a t l n g . T h e sa me mp l e f cur 0 was then r epolishedand etched,and the n sa o heatedat l30oCfor 10 min and cooled before hydrogen bombardment. The results a r e s h o w n n T a b l e l 7 A ' a s p a i re d cells. i Fur ther exper iments e doneon wer
sl m i l a r s a m p l e s'so me i th h e a ti ng and some w without. Theser esults ar e show n i n F i g u r e l 7 B . It d o e sn o t a p p earthat pr e- heatingis necessar y for the hyd r og e n b o m b a rd mep ro ce ss. T h i s can be explainedby the fact that the Cu/Cur O nt is bombardment made invas:ion the Cur0 so that the by of iunction in hydrogen p Ju n c t i o n i s ma d e a rt w a y i n to the inter ior of the or igina' l sample. For the th e r m a l l y p re p a re d l l s' th e C u film is deposited ectly on the sur face, s o ce dir th a t t h e i mp u ri ti e s o n th e su rfa cewouldbe mor eimpor tantin this case. The fact that pre-heating is not necessary the hydrogen in process bombardment si m p l i f l e s an d sp e e d s p th e p ro cessing. u wasmalntainedat the pre-heat temperature In some experlments,the sample durlng the hydrogen Again no definite differences were observed bombardment. b e t w e e nh e se ce l l s a n d ce l l s w l thout heating. t An o t h erva ri a ti o n w a s to h e at the cell in a vacuum nnediately ir after the hydrogen This might be expectedto anneal the lntrinslc CurO bombardment. l la y e r a n d p erh a p s a n g ets p ro per ties. The r esults ar e shown Table 18. ch in At the lower temperatures, there did not seem be any effect but at 400"C, to there was a tendency towarda lower Vo. and higher Jr. due to the heatlng. This i e f f e c t i s a l so sh o w nn F i g u re 1 0. Since the high dar k r esistanceof the cell b w a s e c r e a s ed y h e a ti n g , i t l s p o ssible that the intr insic layer wasaffected. d
41
preparation
Reststlvtty
of Cu^O (fl. "61 DLF-XX-14-G* DLF-JO(-14-Grt DLF-Sb-I-05-Drt iLF-sb-r-05-Drt DLF-C.F2-I-D5-B* DLF-CuF2-I-05-Btt 181 L81 781 781 581 681 130 130 None 10 130 None None
8C
voc
Vol ts
nA/cm- )
l. 6 8 10 L.27 1. 05 10 1. 33 L.L2 0. g6
ExperLments
on Slnllar
Sanrples
DLF-n-14-C* DLF-Sb-I-05-82* DLF-nV-05-A1* DLF-nV-05-A2* DLF-nV-OS-B* DLF-uV-05-82* DLF-nV-OS-C* DLF-rnVII-05-A** DLP-nVII-05-B** DLF-nVII-05-C** DLF-UVII-05-D** DLF-nVII-05-c*tr DLF-uVII-05-lt**
280 637 357 357 3520 3520 3070 73g 474 526 398 516 340
135 130 None None None 130 130 4OO 400 None None None None
10 10
0.525 0.560 0.430 0.280 0.545 0.495 0.540 0.670 0.664 0.651 0.655 0.696 0.685
10 10 10 10
* These eamples were prepared wlth 500 v bombardment voltage and 120 e bonrbardnent tlne. ** Ttrese sarnples nere prepared wlth 250 V bornbardrnent voltage and 75 s boubErdnent tLme.
42
I
TABTE 18
Effects
of Postheatlng
Bonbardment*
qeqpte
DLF-Pb-V-04-A1 DLF-Pb-V-O4-!c DLF-S1-V-04-B DLF-InVII-04-A DLF-nVII-05-D DLF-mV-14-A DLF-nVII-04-C DLF-nVII-04-C AB-Zn-I-02-A1
in:lfi
428 338 341 673 398 45L 354 325
(oc)
140 140 L50 240 250 400 400 400 400
Mr-nutes t*i!"t
10 .10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 1. 15 1. 30 1. 53 L. 81 1. 87 2.53 2.24 1. 94 3. 31
voc
(V ol ts)
Unheated StmLlar Sanples DLF-nV-14-A DLF-nV-14-B DLF-nVII-04-G DLF-nVII-05-C DLF-nVII-05-D DLF-nVII-05-G DLF-nVII-05-H DLF-Si-V- O4-A2 DLF-St-V-04-B DLF-Pb-V-04-C *'A11 cellg
45L 322 325 526 398 516 340 253 34L 252
1. 88 2,03 L.62 1. 56 1. 91 1. 63 1. 30 1. 95 1. gg 1. 13
0. 505 0. 513 0. 660 0. 65L 0. 655 0. 696 0. 695 0. 695 4.72A 0. 709
were prepared under the normal bourbardnent condl.tlona of and 75 e bonbardnent tlne.
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44
h.
m e n t sl s t h e q u a l l ty o f th e C u rO. Thls depends the lm pur ltles ln the star tl ng on C u , t h e r e mo va o r a d d l tl o n o f l rnpur ltlesdur lng the oxldation and pr ocessln g, l a n n e a l l n gc on d i tl o n s, e tc. T h e sefactor s mayinfluence the gr ain slze, r esls tl v l t y , d l f fu sl o n l e n g th , l n te rface states, tc., which dir ectly affect the
p r o p e r t l e s of th e ce l l s. o l ) So urce f C o p p e r. T h e b est high pur ity Cu available cor m er ciallyls Cor 9 9 . 9 9 9 + fC u , su p p l {e db y Ma te rl a ' lsResear ch por ation, l Gallar d- schlesinger , grade is OFE,99.95+X ASARCO, others. The best normalcottvnerclal and Cu. A bom bar dment var ious star ting Cu is b fr om c o m p a r l s o of ce l l s ma d e y h yd rogen n g l v e r rl n T a b l e 1 9 . T h e re su l ts o f this study ar e inconclusive. Fr oma r eview thic the sour ceof the Cu is not impor tant . o f t h e r e s u l ts o n e ml g h t co n cl u de e Cu T h i s c o n c l usi o nl s q u e sti o n a b 'l since the impur ity content in 99.999+f is the car r ier concentr ation 100Q.cm in o a s m u c h s l 0 p p m r l 0 l 8 cm-3w her eas a
Cu r ois 1 o l4 c m-3
s u f f i c i e n t to a ffe ct th e e l e ctri cal pr oper ties and it is pr obablethat all of t h e s o u r c e so f C u co n ta l n crl ti ca l im pur ities that ar e in par t hannful. A f u r t h e r d i s cu ssi o no f i mp u ri ti e s was given in the ear lier r epor t ( 2d) . It w o u l db e u s e fu l to h a veh i g h e r p u r ity Cu available, at least for tests. Pr oby c e d u r e sf o r p u r{fyl n g C u h a veb e endeveloped Le H6r lcy, t al. ( fg) . wer e usedas oxldl z ed of A o 2 ) S u c ce ssl ve n n e a l i n g f C u20. Sonpsam ples Cur O annealat 500"Cin order to lower at ,\,1000"C nrostwere given a subsequent but the reslstivity. anneal of Recentlywe have found it useful to use a prograrmed
cells 1 0 0 0 o r9 0 0 o r8 0 0 o r7 0 0 " 16 0 0 o ,5 00ofor I hour each. The r esults on some p r e p a r e d n th l s ma n n ea re g i ve n in Table 20. The Vo. valueswer e conslsten tl y r l impr ovem ents Jr . In h l g h , a l l l n e xce sso f 0 .6 4 V a n d as high as 0,72 U. Som e cells on sim ilar samples Cur O( 2d) of w e r e a l s o o bta i n e do n th e rma l l ye vapor ated
45
f'l
Ta b l e1 9
Startl ng Cu and Cu20Preparatl ** on l) l ' |' a l-b 2-b 3-d 3-d 3-a 4-d 4-a 4-d 5- a 5-a 5'a 5-c
5-C
vo.
Sampl e RI-J-Marl B II- 0 3 -D RI-?-l4arz B V I-0 4 -E B DLF-m III-05- C RI-GS -I-J RI-GS .I.5 RI-GS .I-3 A DR.I-3 A DR-I-5 ADR. -6 I RI-3-03-B RI- 3- 03-C RI- 3-03-D RI-3-10-B RI-3-J0-C RI - 3-04-C
(Q'cm)
(v)
0. 635 0. 550 0. 605 0. 580 0. 583 0. 608 0. 630 0. 583 0.65.| 0 .622 0.620 0.640 0. 582 0. 523 O.6JB
I 370 1378 I 821 1257 577 897 983 518 513 452 607 300 268 298 280
2.43 2. 30 2.56 3.03 2.54 2.63 2.04 2 .35 2 .29 2.48 2.77 2.62 2.70 3. 05 2. 58
2) 3)
4)
5)
5-a
TableI 98
Cor in C M R Z g r a d eC u (9 9 .9 9 9 % u ) suppliedby M ater ials Resear ch por ation 3/4" diannter rods. The slices cut from the rod were melted and rec r y s t a l l i ze d i n g ra p h i te cru cible - then r ol' ie,j into a r ibbon of desir ed t h l c k n essa n d cu t l n to re cta ngularsamples. in Cor C Z 2 . l t l ARg r a d eC u (g g .9 9 9 % u ) su ppliedby M ater ials Resear ch por ation t h e f o r m o f 0 .6 n n th l ck ri b b on. 3. by Company in C H l g h p u r i ty C u (g g .g g g Z u ) supp' lied Gallar d- Schlesinger 3,/4r'dianeter rods. The s'lices of 'r,1 rm thickness were cut directly from the rod. 4. (d C u o b t a in e dfro m A S A R C Oo u blyr efined) high pur ity Cu whichwasm elted a n d r e c r ysta l l i ze d (i n o u r l a bor ator y) in a gr aphite cr ucible as a 3/4" r o d . Sl i ce s o f n ,l n m th i cknesswer e cut dir ectly fr om the as- gr oi{ n n a t e r i a l. 5. 9 C o r n n r c l a lOF E 9 .9 5 f C u su p plledln 0.82 r m thick r lbbon sheets
47
Tablel9C
After oxidation a t l 0 o o -1 0 1 o o c(.l5- 30 h) , the as- gr own Cur 0crystal s were t subjectedto the fol 1owing hea treatments
a. Step cool i ng down: 900"C for 2 h , 8 0 0 o Cf o r 2 h , 7 0 0 o Cf o r 2 h , 600 " C f o r 2 h , a n d 5 0 0 o Cf o r 2 h .
;.
for I h, I Step coo i ng with a l o n g er heat tr eatm entat 500oC: 900"C for t h, 8 0 0"Cfor I h, 700' Cfor ' l h, 600"C for 4 h. a n d 500"C
c.
j over 1.5 h - then r apid S J co n tin u o u sco o 'ln g from I000" to 500oC ow q u e n ch l n g ro o mte mP er atur e. to
d.
4B
TAEIE20
Ilplcal
Cu/Cur0 cells
Samples
sc (mA/crn 1. g3
voc
(V ol ts)
DLF-nVT-24-H
-277 229
0.675 0.680 0, 650 0. 660 0. 696 0.685 0. 640 0, 543 0.690 0, 685 o"720 0. 643
2. 01
2.25
DLF-mVII-04-G
250, -230 v B l as 250, -2 3 0 V B i.as 250, -2 3 0 v B l as 250, -23 0 V B Las 250 250 254 250, -23O V BJ.as 250, -2OOV Bias
1. 62
DLF-nVII-05-G
1. 53
DLF-nVII-05-H
1. 30
DLF-nVII-07-K DLF-In-I-01-D
1. 71 1. 41
r . 39 1. 95
1, gg
DLF-Si-V-04-B
DLF-SD,-I-02-C
L.22
49
T h u st h e s u cce ssl ve n n e a l i n g rocess p a appear s be beneficial. Twoof the to p o s s i b l ee x p l a n a ti o n s re (l ) th e depar tur efr om stoichiom etr y adjustedmor e a is favorably and (Z) sone impuritles are removed from the bulk of the CurOgrains by nucleation and growthof separatephases A 3 ) D o o e d u p ro u s d eS a mo' les. number cells fr om doped C Oxi of sam ples of C u r O e r e i ncl u d e di n th e re su l ts alr eadydiscussed. These w wer e usedpar tly b e c a u s eh e y w e re a va i l a b l e fro m other r esear ch t and par t' ly to detect possibie e f f e c t s o f do p a n ts. U su a i l y n o g r eat differ enceswer e obser ved because the of normalscatter in the results. A comparison between cells from undoped and
d o p e d u r 0 sa mp l e ss sh o w nn T ab' le21. In this par ticular gr oup, the doped i i C higher Vo., but the Jr. values were comparab'le. samples tendedto have somewhat r L e a da n d t i n w e re n o te d to b e mo s t beneficial and some esults ar e given in Table2?. wer eaddedto a base99.999+fl I t s h o u l db e me n tl o n e d a t the dopants th Cu ce w h l c h o l r e a d y co n ta l n e d rta l n i mpur itles. The var ious lmpur ities could d i s t r i b u t e i n so me a y i n th e ca sting and r olling. w Som e impur ities wer e lost
I n t h e o x l d a tl o n b y vo l a tl l l za ti o n or segr egatlon the gr owinglnter face. at pr co A f u r t h e r s e g re g a ti o n u l d o ccu r in the annealing ocess,and, wher eim por tant, or t h e e t c h a n t c o u l d d i ffe re n tl a l l y remove leave impur ities at the sur facc. more Therefore, to properly studJ the effect of impurities wil'l require much her d e t a i l e d i n t ve stl g a ti o n s th a n a ttempted e, and for this it wi' ll be necessar y t o p r e p a r ea h i g h l y p u ri fi e d b a seCu. Cur 0cell s wer e prepa by hydrogen a red 4 ) E le ctro p la te d C u e O. S e verJ Cul i of bombardnrent el ectroplated Cur0f i I ms (t q ) deposted o n g o ld c o v e re d s u b s t ra t e s . Th e f l l m s w e re 3 - 2 5 u m th i ck a n d no etching was usedin mo s t c a s s r s in c e it in T w a s f e l t t o b e u n n e ce ssa ry. h e results ar e shown T a b le 2 3 . F o r p re l imi n a r y r nrents the results were qui te good with Vo. up t o 0 . 4 8 V a n d J r. u p t o experl ,
50
TABTE 21
of Cu/Cur0 Ce1ls Prepared by Hydrogen Bombarduent of Doped and Undoped Gu.O Sanples*
Conparlson
Sample
J
SC ?t
voc
V oLts
(mA/ cm4
2. 00 2. 30 1. 40 1. 93 2,25 l. g g 1, gg
Doped Cur0 Samples Annealed a r 5 0 0 0 c DIJ-AI.I-03-A DLT-AI.II-04-B DLF-AI-LI-,04-C DLF.AI-III-04-C DLF.AI-III-04-D DLF-In-II-05-B DLF-I{B-II-03-BI DLF-Pb.I-03-E DLF-S1-rV-05-C DLf-Sb-Sr1- I-05-C
337 164 180 .796 s74 451 322 L62 339 580
0.594 0.642 a.627 0.575 0. 502 0. 495 0. 592 0.617 0.550 4.622
5l
TABLE 22 . A
Best cu/cuoO ceIls Prepared by Hydrogen Bombardmenr on z Doned CurO Samples Gells t"* (s) """ , (mL/cn') Vo. (Votts)
HLgh Current
Sarnple
75 75 7i 75 75 75 120 75
0.626 o.632
0. 565 0. 665 0. 575 0.649 0. 663 0, 575
34L 250, -230 V Blas 160 250 252 250) -nA V B ia s 4L7 250, -330 V Bias 85L 25A, -200 V Bias
75 90 75 75 50
1. g9 1. g3 1. L3 L. 55 1. 34 L. 19 1. 05 2.27
354 250, -375 V Bl,as 7 s 250 75 DLF-Pb-rr-03-D* . 160 24A 250 A3-Pb-rrr-04-81 * 150
* Ttrese CurO Bamples were auccessLvely annealed
from 10000 c t o 5 O O o . c
52
TABLE23
Cur0 Samples *
*tffie'' sanple
RKP {IL RKP #2
Etchant
Area (ctn21
e:(P (s)
acaoc (nA/cE')
JV
(volts)
None
0. 65 1.0 1.0
2s0
250
60 60 60
2 .5 5 .0
None
T-tt
AR #1 AR #1 AR IIZ
None
2so
None
75 75 75
0.30 0.30 0. 01
None
None
RKP-32
23
5 I wtth 8M HNO30.56
250
60
0.96
0,422
*No reslsttvlty
for
vLty of electroplated
Cur0 is normally
quite
53
I fiA/cmo. The chlef pnoblem wlth the electr oplatedcur Ois its high r esistivity , t 1 0 4o . c ma n d th l s co u l d ca u sesome the lower ingof Vo. and Jr .. of Fur ther
devel opnnnton the bulk properties of el ectroplated curOwi I I be necessary n i order to pursuefurther cel I work. ' 3 . Ph vsfca lE xa mi n a tl oo f Cooper n Film s The fllms produced hydrogen by bombardment examined several techniques were by ln o r d e r t o esta b l i sh th e co mp o s ition the film s, the thicknessas affected of b y b o m b a r d me n tl ta g e a n d ti me , nucleationand gr owthof the film s, and the vo e l e c t r l c a l c on tl n u l ty o f th e fi l ms. Themethods usedwer eAugersur faceanaly s i s ,
s u r f a c e r e s i sti vi ty me a su re me n ts, electr on m icr oscopy diffr action. and and a. AuqerStudles. The satnples were preparedjust before the Augerexamina-
tion (within a few hours) and were transported in a vacuum vessel. Total survey scansat varlous depths showed that only Cu and 0 were present, except for the usu a l , c o n t a mi n a tl o n th e su rfa ce. The sputter etching r ate with Ar + wa; cal i at brated wlth a thermally preparedCulCur0 cell of known thickness of Cu, shown In Figurell. F i g u re 1 2 sh o w s d epth pr ofile for a cell pr epar ed hydr ogen a by
bombardment. outer part of the sample The was i,100t| Cu, which verified experimentally that the effect of hydrogen bombardment to reducethe top surface was o f t h e C u r 0t o C u . E ve n tu a l l yth e depth pr oflle r eached the [Cu]/[0] r atio of 2' r e p r e s e n ta ti ve f b u l k C u r0 . A s seenby the Augerexper im ent, o the tr ansitio n from Cu to Cur0was not sharp (ttris was also true for the evaporated film on Cu Cu r 0 ) , s o t h at th e th l ckn e sso f th e Cu fllm could not be accur atelymeasur ed. As l n d f c a t e d In F l g u re 1 2 , th e l n ter face was chosen the polnt wher ethe Cu at pe a kf e l l t o h a l f o f l ts e xce ssva l ue over the bulk value. . th F l g u r e 1 3 sh o w s e re su l ts o n cells pr epar ed var ious bombar dment at voltages .
54
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A ppro x lr n q t e 74
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223 260
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Copper
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a-
fooov
750v 500v
z s ov
2.4 ,c|
3.6 J.b 4.9 4.9
6.0
7,2
8.4
( minutes)
Auger gurfacc analysis depth profJ.les of Cu/Cu2O cclls prcpared by hyllrogen ion bonbardment undlr (Bombardment tlne, 75 s.) varl,ous bonbardment voltages.
at the surfacetrashlgher, whereas hlghervoltagesthe Junction at wasmore graded. Thenomlnal fllm thickness,as definedabove,increased wlth bombardment voltage. Thedata are given in a different form in Fig. 14. Theamount..of nretal Cu twlce the pertentage 0 from the total percentage of wascalculatedby subtractlng as the of Cu (ttrts assumes 0 ls present CurO). TheI of Cuols plotted against to sputterlng time ln Flgure14. Theareaunderthe curvewasintegrated 7.2 min of of to yfeld a valueof the total percentage Cuoin that thickness film. This wlth of on ls lndlcated eachcurve. It ls seenthat the percentage Cuolncreased at of converslon Cur0to Cuo any point variedfrom70 to voltage. Themaxlmum 909. and times at Some cells prepared variousbombardment wereexamined the of profiles are shown Flgure15. It is seenthat the amount conversion ln Auger as tlme. bombardment Thenonlnalfllm thickness definedin Flgure Increased\wlth
the per centage tlme. Flgur e l6 shows o lZ l s s e e n \ t o b e l n d e p e n d e n tf b o mbar dment to o f C u ot n t h e to p l a ye r co rre sp o n ding 3.6 r nin of sputter etching ( n,100l) . time. of Thls showt dh.t the amount Cuoformedincreasedwith exposure 15 ln The eff ct o f a ve ry l o n g b o mbar dmentr mln' is shown Flgur e 17. Thi s
\
value ln that the fllm t he t h l c k n e s so f i h e mta l fl l m sh ouldhavean optlm um lateral conductlvlty and thln enough d shoul be thl ck e oughto have adequate t o h a v eh l g h lfsh tra n smi ssi o n . F ur ther ' the conductivity of the fllm depends a s w e l l a s th e thickness
uponI ts contlnult
57
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(i)
223
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7.2
Flgure
of Cuo on Cu/CurO cells prepared by hydroDlstributlon gen ton bombardment at varLofis bombardment voltagee and a 7-c s bombardment tl.ne.
58
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T h ic k n e s s il2
(i)
t49 186
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of Cu/Cu2O Cells Augar surface anal;vsls depth profiles prepared by h;rdlsgen lon bonbardnent nt 250 V wlth various 'bombardnent tlmes.
59
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c 3 (J
t-
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II
a-
c o C' c o ()
L. a-
20
.9 E
o
ap
15
30
40 TIme (s)
B ombord m e n f
Flgure 15.
Amount of Cuo formed on Cu/Cu2Ocells prepared by 8E 250 V-with varlous bonbardinent hydrogen bombardmenE ttmeg.
60
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( A)
r95
260
CoPPer
^
v
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De
c o
a-
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40
C' .E
a-
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2.1 S putteri n g
4.2 T im e
6.3 ( m in u t e s )
8.4
of a Cu/Cu20 cell Flgure 17.., Auger eurface analysis depth proflle prepared by hydrogen 1on bombardment at 250 V hrlth s. 15 rnlnrrle borabardnent t,Lme.
61
g r a l n g r o w t hme th o d ) w fth o u t a low tem per atur e (a anneal. Typically the bomb a r d m e n t a sd o n ea t 2 5 0 V fo r 7 5 s. w 0n a number individual cel' ls, the of
su r f a c er e s i stl vi ti e s ra n g e dfro m 66 to 2300n/squar e. This is r elatively h i g h s o t h a t fi n g e rs a re n e ce ssa r y lower the cell r esistance. In applying to flngers, it was found necessary make to contact to the bombarded surface on'ly, because any evaporated cameinto contact with untreatedcu"0, the vo. if cu of the cell was found to be lowered. A s e t o f U s" i ..L g a su re ments shown Figur e 18. Resistivity measu r eme is in m n t s w e r em a d e fte r e a ch l 0 s o f bom bar dment. is seenthat the sur face a It re s l s t l v l t y fe l l sh a rp l y i n th e re gion of 50- 90 s. Beyond s, the decr eas e 80
f n r e s i s t i v l t y w a s l e ss. T h i s i s consistentwith the empir ica] choiceof 75 s as a n o p t i m um o mb a rd me nme . The Augerr esults also suppor tthis choice. b ti t c. El e ctro nMi cro sco p S tu d ies. It was of inter est to exam ine m or e the
phologyof the Cu film formedon Cur0 by hydrogen bombardment to correlate and t h i s w l t h t h e A u g e ra n d su rfa ce re sistivity m easur ements. number electr o n A of m i c r o s c o p t e ch n i q u e s e ree xp l o red( scanning lectr onm icr oscopV, ansm ission e w e' tr y e l e c t r o n m i c ro sco p o f re p l i ca sa mp' tes, etc.) and the successfu'appr oach l that wa se v o l v e dw a s tra n smi ssi o n l e ctr on m icr oscopy thin sectionsof Cur } . e of S a m p l eo f fl o a t zo n ere fi n cd single cr ystals of Cur 0wer e cut into thin s s e c t i o n s ' f u r th e r th i n n e db y p o l i shing, and finally wer e thinnedby ion m illing at un t i l p e r f o r ate d . T h e e d g e so f th e sam ple the ho' lewer esufficiently thin f o r e l e c t r o n tra n smi ssi o n d i e s. Var iousar eas could be identified and located stu a g a l n i n l a t e r e xp e ri me n ts.T h e sam ples eexamined wer befor e and after a hydr ogen usedwer ebr ight fie' ld and dar k field b o m b a r d m e ne a tme n t. T h e te ch n i ques tr t a ima g l n g n d s e l e cte da re a e l e ctro n diffr action ( SnO) . This allowedone to n d is t i n g u i s hb ei w e e C u a n d C u rO.
62
DA
. L.J I l
a^
o
L
o = trr
"t ,
aE
o-
=
3l'
=c) Yt ct CE
A4
40 B om b o r d m e n t
18.
60
-Ft
80 (s)
f oo
I I me
F lgur e
resl stl vl ty o f Ehe surface Va ri a ti o n of the C u fi l m a s a fu n c ti o n ' of the bombardment tl me by hydrogen lons.
63
Reprtsentatfve SADpatterns before and after hydrogen bombardment are shown Figures l9A and B. The pattern ln Figure l9A is that of a well ln orlented single crystal of Cur0. This spot pattern was indexedfrom known crystallographic data (15) and the assignments shown Figure 20. Figure are in pattern of the sample l98 shows the SAD after hydrogen bombardment. baslc The p a t t e r n i s s tl i t tt.t o f C u r0b u t the patter n containsm any mor espots, ar ising
from the Cu fonnedby the bombardment. .Thelndexlng of the spots in this pattern is g i v e n i n F i g u re 2 1 . A mo red e tailed identification of the doublediffr action s p o t s l s g l v e n i n F l g u re 2 2 . It can be seen that the Cu spots form an :'Centicalpattern to that of Cur0 b u t s l i g h t l y e n l a rg e d . B o th C u a nd Cur 0havecubic str uctur eswith ' lattice p a r a m e t e i s f 1 .8 0 8a n d 2 .1 3 5A , r.tpectively, so that the Cur 0' lattice is o diffr l5 % l a r g e r t h a n th a t o f C u . T h u sthe comesponding action patter ns ar e that Cu for msas a sing' le c . l o s e r t ot h e ce n tra l b e a m. T h u sthis patter n shows c r y s t a l o n C u r0a n d th e re l a ti ve spot positions showthat Cu for m sepitaxially th o n t h e C u r O . A n a l ysi s sh o w s a t the Cu { 100} planesar e par allel to the o t l0 0 ) p l a r r e s f C u r0a n d th e C u <.|00>dir ection is par aliel to the Cur 0 < .|00 > d i r e c t l o n . It i s i n te re sti n g th a t these or ientations occur in spite of the l5? i m l s m a t c hn l a t.i ce co n sta n ts. f Additional spots occur aroundthe primary diffraction spots by the phenomenon o f d o u b l ed l f fra ctl o n (1 6 ) a n d th e s e ar e often ca1ledsatellite spots. Double strongly diffracted by one set of rllffractlon occurs whenan electron beam p ltself and is diffr acted a second time by , p l a n e sa c t s a s a se co n d rl ma ryb e am se a fa v o r a b l y ori e n te d se co n d t o f cr ystal planes. Epitaxial layer s on a cr ys tal diffr action ( 17) . Double diffr acti on pr o v i d e v e r y fa vo ra b l eco n d i ti o n sfor doub' le o c a n r e s u l t i n th e a p p e a ra n cef fo r biddenspots as well as satellite spots. In these Cu on Cur0 patterns, both forbidden and satellite spots occur. The forbidden
.1r'**-
patcerns of an ton thtnned FICUREf9.- Selected area electron dlffractton Gu20 crystal (A) before and (B) efter hydrogdn ion bonrbardvollago ond 150 r bonbnrdruonttlnc. nGnt ot 250 V bombardrnent
65
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.. rr-
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240
il3
o z
= U n d i f f r o c t e d Be o m = C uo O S p o t s
c
a F o r b i d d e n D o u b le Diffr o ctio n Sp o fs
FLgure 20.
crystal
66
-x
(o 2? l
A
Ao B
BX AOA B
( f T3)
x (2O4)
AoA
B AO A B
AZA
o
B A OA B .B AOA
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z
o
A Z A
x (o22't
AOA
( I3 I)
X Q 4ol
z = Fo r bi dden
X= A= B=
Cu S pofs So te l l l fe So tr l fi te
Spots
D oubl e D oubl e
Flgure 21.
Analysls of the extra spotF appearing in FLgure 278 after the cu20 sample (whose sAD partern is shoun in Ftgure 27A) was exposed to hydrogen ion bombardment at 250 v bombardment voltage and a 150 s bombardment tLme.
-<t---r--ir--t*-ts
67
c
A
c
A
D E
@=
D E
Cu,-O Spot c. Doubfe Diffroction Double Diffrocfion Double Dif f roction Double Diffroction Double Diffroction
A B
(lll)cu
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( il t ) A t,U
c
D E
Cu ZO
(o?zt
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Cu
ilTs l' Cu !A
0u
ez 4 UU A
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spotsoccurln both the pureCurO the Cu/CurO patternswhen electron and an beam dlffracied by oneset of Cur0nlanesundergoes dlffractlon by anotherset of Cur0plahes. These ldentlfled ln Figures and22. Thesatellite are 2l spots, shown Figure22, anddenoted ( in as )CueO ( )gu spots, occur
froma particularset of planes the Cu lattice is when the,diffracted beam in diffracted by a similar set of planes the Cur0lattice. in Parallel rnolr6 fringeswereobserved the bright field images the in of Cu/Cr4'r} as in fringes result fromthe overlap samples shown Figure23. These slight'ly different lattice parameters of ltto single crystals having whichare
o r f e n t e d w i th p a rti cu l a r crysta l ' lattices par a' lle' lto eachother . The spacing s b e t w e e nh e frl n g e s., D , i s re l a ted to the lattice par am eter of Cu and Cur 0, d1, t a n d d r , w h i ch co n tri b u te to th e fringe for m ationthr oughthe equation D = d l d . l l \ - d.l (1 6 ). T h e me asur ed value of the m oir 6 fr inge spacingwas
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r u1 4 . 3 5[ , w h i ch co mp a refa vo ra b' ly with the va]ue of ' 13.65 calcu]atedfr om s A ll t e r a t u r e va l u e so f d ., a n d d r. A fur ther conclusion that can be dr awnfr om the
i m o i r 6 f r i n g e i ma g e s s th a t th e Cu on the sur faceof the Cur 0 is pr esentin p s m a l l l n t e r c o n n e cte d a tch e s. T his is par ticular ly clear in the vicinity of t h e d a r k e x ti n cti o n co n to u rw h e rethe fr inge patter n is m ost clear ly visible. I t i s p o ssi b l e to a d j u st th e obiective aper tur eto excludesom e diffr acte d e l e c t r o n s r el a ti ve to o th e rs a n d thus cr eate dar k field or br ight field lmages . S t u d yo f s u ch l ma g e s p p e a rto sh owthat the Cu is pr esentas sm all inter a on l c o n n e c t e dsl a n d s'e p i ta xl a l l y g ro wn the Cur O. It is posslblealso that the slightly with f l l m i s c o n ti n u o u s i th sma l l p o rtions, its islands, m isor iented w re s p e c tt o ea cho th e r b u t sti l l Coatinqs 4. Added Antireflection coatings were used to reducethe reflection losses and attack on the cells. w v a r i o u s e n c a p su l a n ts e re u se dto pr eventatmospher ic e pitaxial with r espectto the Cur 0.
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. d . A n tl re fl e ctl o n C o a tl n q s..Antir eflection coatingsof SiO* ( t < x< z) were applled to cells by sputtering from an SiO, target with argon. The optirnum thlckness of 775A r.r calculated from t = (l /4)^/n where), = 4550A ana n was t a k e n a s 1 . 5, th e re fra cti ve i n d e x of Si0r . re T a b l e 24 sh o w s su l ts o b ta i nedon cel' ls befor e and after application of a n t l r e f l e c t f on co a tl n g s. It l s seenthat substantlal impr over nents, to n,5 0X, up w e r eo b t a l n edfo r Jr. w h i l e th e V o. wasnot affected appr eciably. Similar 4. re s u l t s a r e sh o w n l se w h e ren T a b' le e l b. E n ca p su l a ti o S ta b i l i tv Studies. A num ber cells wer e encapsulat ed n of
in e p o x yr e s i n s u n d e rg l a ss to p rotect themfr om atmospher ic attack. In gene r al , w t h e p r o c e d ure a sq u i te su cce ssful. The Vo. of the cells changed y litt' le ver o v e r w e e k s ,as sh o w nn F i g u re 2 4 . The Jr . almostalwaysim pr oved, i som etimes gr lrm e d l a t e l y up o ne n ca p su l a tl o n n d sometimes adually. The impr ovem ent a was
l0 to 57% overa number cells. Possible of explanations this are an. for improvement light transmission, morelike'ly, that the top layer of the or, in
Cu w h l c h h a d a l re a d y su ffe re d so tne oxidation by air was r educed back to Cu by t h e e p o x y , t hu s i mp ro vi n g e co n ductivity' of the film. th Thesecells did not hav e
a n a n t i r e f l e cti o n co a ti rrg . P a rt o f the im pr ovem ent antir ef' lection coatings by re p o r t e di n t h e p re vi o u sse cti o n m ayalso havebeendue to a sim ilar chem ical re d u c t i o no f su rfa ceo xi d e s. F i g u r e 25 sh o w s e va ri a ti o n of c o n v e rs io n e f f ic ie n c ie s o f s e v e ra l c e lls th ur i t h t l m e . A g a i n l t ca n b e se e nthat t h e re is s o me t ime s t e n d e n c yf o r a n a ln lm p r o v e m e nt p ro p e rtl e sw i th ti me. T h i s s u g g e s t s t h a t i t ma y b e a d v is a b le t o processthe cel I s compl u etely i n vacuum n t i I t h e c e l I s h a v e b e e n e n c a p s ua t e d . l
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The most important result of this researchwas a large improvernntin the of with a pr eviousm aximun o p e nc i r c u i t p o te n ti a l , u p to 0 .72U, as com par ed 0 . 3 5 V . T h e fi l l , to fa cto r a l so w a s impr oved 0.56. Howeverthe shor t cir cui t
ce]ls preparedby thermal evapocurrent tendedto be lower than for comparable for^ value obtainedwas 5.28 nrA/c,nz, a cell with Cu ratlon of Cu. The maxlmum f i n g e r s a n d a n S i 0 *a n ti re f.te cti o ncoating.However ,theseoptimumvaluesw er e attained efficiency was 1.3% . ce n o t o b t a i n e dl n th e sa n re l l , S o that the m aximum
Z. Method Bombardment Analvsis of the Hv_droqen
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a the top surfaceof the Cut0to Cu, thus producing rnent Curgis to reduce of barrier iunction' i.. a junction. Thejunction is therefore Schottky CulCur1 junction, whichproduces rectifying andphotovoltaic the a metal-to-semiconductor effect. from is hydrogen to be expected of Therecluction Cur0to Cuby'ionized analysis by and considerations, this wasverified experimentally Auger thermcdynamic
a n d b y e l e ctro n d i ffra cti o n . is of A n advantage the method that the Cu is fo r m ed b y i n v a s l o no f th e C u r0so th a t sur face impur ities ar e' left behindand a cleaner inter face states m ayincr easethe bar r i er of J u n c t i o n i s fo rme d . T h e a b se n ce some h e i g h t a n d th e re fo re vo ., b u t th e data to pr ovethis ar e inconclusive. The at reducedconcentrationof surface states mayreducethe recombination the in the dar k' by i n t e r f a c e an d th i s i s su p p o rte d the lower r ever secur r ent b. C Effect of Bombardment ' The distribution of it Experimental'ly by is cu formedby bombardnrent shown the Augerresults. as deeperinto the sample the bombardment was found that the cu profile moved
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Yoltagewas increased. The amount Cu formedincreasedwith bombardment of time, w h l c h d e te rmi n e d e to ta l l o n dosage. Thuslower voltages, B.g. 250V, wer e th Pr e f e m e d,si n ce th e se g a veth i nner films, whichgavebetter light tr ansm i s s i on r n d t h e r c fo re b e tte r Jsc. A t l east a cer tain bom bar dment time, .g. n,75 s , w as co r c q u l r e d to l n su re a d e q u a te ntinuity in the film and sufficiently 1owsurfac e rcsistivity. This contributed to an inprovedJr.. Longerbombardment times
g a v et h i c k e r C u fi l ms, w h i ch l e d to r educed light tr ansmission and lower Jr .. it A s a fl rst a p p ro xi ma ti o n can be assum ed that the distr ibution of Cu w as d e t e r m i n e d y th e d i stri b u ti o n of hydr ogen the sample. Ther eis a cons i der abl e b in into m ater ia'l s , b o d yo f l i te ra tu re (1 8 ,1 9 ,2 0 )o n the penetr ationof ion beams of b u t t h e i nte re st i n l a rg e l y o n ion implantation,invo' lvjngbeams sever a l h u n d r e d e Va n d fa i rl y l i g h t d osages. This is differ ent fr om the condition sof k e can t h e p r e s e n tre se a rch ,b u t so xn c onpar isons be m ade. sample tends to be a Gausslan T h e d l stri b u tl o n o f l o n s l n a bombar ded d i s t r i b u t i on , a n d fo r l i g h t i o ns at low voltages, the cur ve is tr uncatedat the pr by s u r f a c e . T h e p e n e tra ti o nd e p th is char acter ized a mean ojectedr ange , m squar e R ^ , w h i c h l o ca te s th e ma xi muo f the distr ibution, and a r oot m ean Pf l u c t u a t i o n , a F '', w h i ch d e scri besthe str aggling of the ions. In the case of deviation i n d a G a u s s i a n i stri b u ti o n , A F pca n be identified with the standar d exp N (x) = N p , ( - XZ/Z) ( 4)
at at w h e r eN ( x ) i s th e co n ce n tra ti on depthx, Np is the peakconcentr ation x'Rpr i ! ,d X = (x-R p )/a n '. T hustl( x) = I' lo//Eat x = RptaRp.
S o m e l cu l a ti o n s o f ra n g esfor pr otonsin var iousmater ials havebeen ca a h m a d e y An d e rse n n d Z i e g l e r (2 1) . At the' lowest limit of their calculations , f o r I k e Vp ro to n s, th e ra n g ei n Si was foundto be l2O A and the str aggling , I Z Ol . F o r T i , th e ra n g efo r I keVpr otonsr epor tedwas 70 I and the str aggl i ng,
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number 22 and a density of 4.5 g.cm-3.otpu."d with an averageZ for Cur0 of of 2 2 a n da d e n si ty o f 5 .0 g .cm-3 . In Figur es13 and 14, it is seenthat the Cu A u g e rc u r v e f or 1 0 0 0V h a s a p e a kat n,50[, which is qualitative' ly simi' lar to Ti. I n F i g u re 2 6 ' th e d a ta fo r th e d t est f o r a G a u ssi a n i stri b u ti o n . .|000 V cur ve in Figur e 14 ar e r eplotted to
o f t h e d i s t a nce i n to th e sa mp 'l e .The str aight l' ine plot shows r em ar kably a g o o df i t t o a Ga u ssi a n i stri b u t'i o n. Fr omthe cur ve the str aggling, ARp,is d est i m a t e dt o b e 6 5 A , a n d R Oi s ta ken as 60 A. A:;lr i:lar tr eatner l vr asapplie d in t o t h e 2 5 0 V c u rve o f F i g u re 1 4 a n d this is shown Figur e 27. The fit to a
G a u s s i a nu n cti o n i s fa i rl y g o o da nd the cur veyields values of RO= 28 A ancl f A R -= 4 l I . P distr ibution maybe somewhat tuitous, sin c e for w T h e a g r ee me n t i th a Ga u ssi a n for the hydr ogen ar r iner t sample w in t he a n a l y s i s o f co n ce n tra ti o n a s not made b with ionized hydr ogen and b u t r a t h e r f o r th e C u op ro d u ce d y reaction of Cur O the values for ROand ARO appear t h i s a s s e e nb y th e A u g e rme th o d . Never theless, function is useful her e to , t o b e r e a s o n a b l ea n d , i n a n y cd S rthe Gaussian desc r l b ea n d p re d i ct th e [C u o ] d i str ibution, which is of pr im ar yinter est her e. H o w e v e rth e re i s a n o th e ri mp or tantfactor . , In ion implantaticln, the
distanceinto the sam ple o b J e c t i v ei s t o i n tro d u cel o w l e ve l s of dopantsom e in ke the wh i c h r e q u i r e s se ve ra l h u n d re d V , wher eas the pr esentexper im ents, o b j e c t i v e i s t o co n ve rta l 'l o f th e Cur 0at and near the sur face into Cuo. As provided the CurOnear the surface is convertedcompietelyinto Cuo, the hydrogen may et,idence by further bombardment be driven further into the sample. Some ed f o r t h i s i s p r o vi d e di n F i g u re 1 7 , but it m ustbe r em ember that this is for tne [Cuo] as seen by the Augermethod.
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The emplrlcal cholce of the optimum bombardment voltage of 250 V appears to be reasonable frlm the Augerresults also. In Cu/CurO cells preparedby
thermal evaporation,the optimum thickness of Cu has beenchosen n,60 A. at T h e p e a ko f 2 8 i p ro vi d e db y 2 5 0 V is in the m iddleof this 60 i and of cour se t h e r e l s s p r e a d l n g n b o th d i re cti ons i
Thecholceof 75 s for the optimum bombardment appears time neasonable from results in Figure'15,sincethis is the minimum required give the Auger time to nearlycornplete conversion Cuoat the peaklevel. to
S o m emp ro ve me nma yb e p o ss ible in the exper im ental l ts conditions. It m ay a be p o s s l b l e to p ro d u ce b e tte r d l str ibutlon of Cuoby using a pr ogr am sever al of doing the bombardment lower voltages or b.V througha mask. Techniques this of s o r t a r e u s edi n i mp l a n ta ti o ni n to semiconductor s. I t w a s po stu l a te dth a t th e re is a high r esistance' layerof Cur O Just be' low t h e C u f l l m a t th e su rfa ce . It i s pr esum ed that this layer consists of intr ins i c or n e a r i n t r i nsi c C u r0 , cre a te db y the action of small am ounts hydr ogen of in s u f f i c i e n t to ca u sere d u cti o nto Cuo. Since Cur 0 is known be a nonto s to i c h i o m e t r i cma te ri a l w i th a n e xcessof oxygen that causes to be p- type ( 2i l , it acts to r emove t h e e x p l a n a ti o nco u l d b e th a t h yd r ogen this oxygen excessbr ing i ng composition. Pr otonbom bar dm ent t h e m a t e r i a l to w a rda mo ren e a rl y stoich' iom etr ic (lO t o 5 0 0 k eV ) h a s b e e nu se d (2 3 ) to pr oduce high r eslstancelayer s 1n both p - t y p e a n d n -typ e Ga A s, s w e l l a s p- type ZnTeand n- and p- type Si. a The expl ana-
p t lo n o f f e r e d w a s'th a t h yd ro g e n ro videsdeeplying donor sand acceptor sln the s e phenom enon pr oton of ma t e r l a l s . I ' l h i l e th e se re su l ts su ggestthat the exper im ental c re bo m b a r d m e n t a ti n g h i g h re sl sta n celayer s is m or egener al,one wouldnot expec t gr on since it is unlikely to e t h e s a m e x p la n a tl o n h o l d i n C ur O chem ical ounds w t h a t a t o m i ch yd ro g e n o u l dco n ti n ueto exist in Cur 0without r eaction.
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3 . A n al .vsl s f E l e ctrl ca l P roper ties o a. G e n e ra l . Ge n e ra d i scu ss ions the electr ical pr oper ties of photol of
v o l t a l c c e l l s h a veb e e ng i ve n b y tl olf and Rauschenbach , by Hovel ( eS) , Uy ( 24) Ha l l ( . e e ) ,a nd b y Gre e n(2 7 ). T h e d i s cu ssi o nl s u su a l l y ma de ter msof an equivalentcir cuit, as show n in ln F l g u r e 2 8 . In th i s ci rcu i t, th er e is a cur r ent gener ator ,which pr ovides t h e p h o t o g e n e ra te d me n t, a d i o de which r epr esents cu the r ectifying junction a n d a s e r i e s a n d a sh u n t re si sta n ceas well as the load r esistance. The net c u r r e n t i n t o th e l o a d i s g i ve n b y J=JL -Jo -JS | ( 5)
cu wh e r eJ , i s t h e p h o to g e n e ra te d rr ent, JD is the cur r ent thr oughthe diode an d J St i s t h e c urre n t th ro u g hth e sh untlngpaths. JD is given by
JD = Jolexp( (q/n k r) (v + J Rs) )
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w he r e R, i s the series resistance, V a n d J a re t h e v o l t a g e a n d c u rre n t a t t h e J o ad , J0 is the dark reverse saturat io n c u rre n t f o r t h e d io d e a n d n is t h e n o ni d ea lity fa ctor. The shunt resistan c e is g iv e n by
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he l g h t w e r e ob ta l n e db y p l o ttl n g the logar ithmof the dar k cur r ent vs. the J u n c t i o n p o t e n tl a l , V J = V - IR s' to obtain JO by extr apolation. The bar r ier he l g h t 0 5 w as ca l cu l a te dfro m th e Richar dson equatlonas descr lbed lier . ear Va l u e so f 0 . 5 8- 7 0 w e re typ i ca l l y obtainedalthoughone value of 0.87 was found. T h e s ev a l u e sa p p e a rto b e to o 'l o w to explaln the high valuesof Vo" by any s i m p l em o d e l . O n ec a n a rrl ve a t a n e stl ma teof the r equlr ed bam ier height by calculating J O f r o m t h e R l ch a rd so e q u a ti o nfrom assumed values of 0b and then ca' lculatln g n Vo . f r o m Eq ua tl o n 8 . T a b l e 2 4 sh ows the r esults of these calculatlons assumi ng J r = 0 . 0 0 5A cm-2 . It ca n b e se e nthat lar ger va' lues 0o wouldbe r equir ed of t h a n t h o s e o b ta i n e de xp e ri me n ta l ly. ^( . S t i l l h i g h e r va l u e so f 0 b mi ght be expected. As shovr n Figur e' , the in b a r r l e r h e i g h t l s e q u a l to th e F e rmiener gyplus the built- in potential. The .|00 as F e n n i e n e r g yi n C u r0ca n b e e sti mated 0.35 eV ( .fr om r esistivity of a o' c m an d a m o b i l i ty o f 1 0 0 cm2 .V -l .r-l ). If one assum es that the built- in potential
ls g r e a t e r t h a n V o ., th e n fro m th e highest value of Vo.,.0,72 Vr on wou' ld e x P e c t0 b t 0 .3 5 + 0 .7 2 = 1 .0 7 V . c. An a l ysi s o f S e ri e s a n d S huntResistances.As shown above,the conve r s i on
by' e f f l c i e n c y o f so l a r ce l l s ca n b e i mpr oved lower ingthe ser ies r esistanceand in c r e a s i n gt h e sh u n t re si sta n ce . paths suchas cur r ent L o ws h u nt re si sta n ce sca n a ri se fr om var ious leakage at lo s s e s o v e r t h e ce l l e d g e so r sh o r ting spots on the sur face, per haps gr ain , from the slope of the boundaries. Experinentalevaluation of Rrn was made c u r r e n t - v o l t ag e rve sa t l o w vo l tages ( 26) . For the hiSh Vo. cells,0.68- 0.72U , cu cells preparedby therm.al values of Rrn of 20- 60 kOwere obtained. For CulCur0
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Yalues RSh 0.4 to 2.0 kOwereobtalned. This supports evaporatlon, of of the ' postulatethat hydrogen produces method bombardment cleanerjunctions, possibly wfth fewershortlng spots A detalledanalyslsof serles reslstance be made can followlngHall (26). Factors whlchcontrlbuteto the serles reslstance are the bulk reslstance the of semlconductor the resistance the contactssuchas the sheetresistance of and of of the top layer andthe resistance the grid. Thetotal cell resistance of reduced cells wasfoundto be 8-25 fl. A typlcal valuefor the the hydrogen
co n t r l b u t l o n o f th e b u l k to th e ser les r eslstancemaybe estimatedby assum l ng a n a r e a o f I cm2 ,a th i ckn e sso f 200 umand a r esistivity of 300 Q.cm,yielding a r e s i s t a n c eva l u e o f 6 a . T h e s h e e t re sl sta n cel s g i ven by ( 20) R = p rd " /1 2
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the lorest raslstlvlty attalned 100 0.cft. Foran lso]ated ls film, the lowest
of ls thlckness fllm thrt canbe handled 100utn. Employlng thesewouldglve Rr'l 0. Furtherimprovement come fromlowering would the resistivity and
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III.
I.
General
The hydrogen bombardment method for producingCu/CurO cells was especially ln p o r t a n t i n th a t i t sh o w e d a t l ar ger values of Vo., as high as 0.72U, cou'l d th be o b t a i n e df o r C u /C u r}j u n cti o n s. This impr ovem ent believedto ar ise fr o m was the fact that cleaner Cu/Cur0 iunctions were preparedby invasion of the Cur0 to pr o d u c e h e Cu , so th a t a n y su rfa ce im pur ities wer e left behind t However, by the cells produced hydrogen bombardment somewhat had lower v a l u e s o f J r . th a n th e ce l l s p re p ar ed ther malevapor ation onto Cur O. by' Cu T h u sl t w a s of l n ti re st to i n ve stl gate other less aggr essive ethods r educ i ng m of of the Cur0 to Cu' so that the advantages the bombardment method could be attained bu t w i t h o u t t h e d i sa d va n ta g e s.In par ticular , it wasplannedto confine the r e duction to thinner top layers of the Cur0, 2, Me P o s si b l eR e d u cti o n th o ds
and 4) reductlon with atomic hydrogen. The atomic hydrogen method had previousphotovoltalcJunctio ns , ly b e e nu s e d ln th l s l a b o ra to ry (1 0,31) to pr epar eCu/Cur 0 m for fur ther investigatlon. to an Cl t w a sJ ud g e d b e th e mo stp r omising ethod 3. Anal Thermod-vnamic vsi s
0n therrnodynamlc Arounds,one wouldexpect that Cur0 could be reducedby elther rnolecularor atomic hydrogen. Thus, the reactlons are l)
( c u r 0( s ) + H z( g ) = 2 c u ( s) + He o s) ( ( Cu r Os ) + 2 H ( g ) = 2 C u( s) + He On ,)
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The calculated values for the standardfree energychange AGo 298Kare at -1 9 . 7 k c a l . mo l -l fo t. re a cti o n l ) and - 116.8 kcal.m ol- l fo. r eaction 2) . t.lhile
both reactlons are posslb'le' the reactlon with atomic hydrogen should proceed morereadily at roomtemperature. B . Exper imental l. Generatlon Atomic Hydroqen of
(28,29). The method for generatlngatomlc hydrogen There ane several methods u s e dh e r e w a s to p a ssmo l e cu l a rh ydr ogen over a hot tungstenwir e ( 10,30,31)at of 2 O 0 O : 2 5 0 0 'C .T h e tu n g ste nfi 'l a m entwasm ade 0.127nun e using a I0 cm wir i le n g t h , a n d th i s w a sw o u n dn to a 3 nmcoil of 6 to 7 tur ns. An ACcum ent bf th 2 . 5 - 3 A w a sp a sse d ro u g hth e coil to attain the desir ed temper atur e. No of th of a t t e m p tw a sma d e d e te rml n e e am ount conver sion molecu' lar atomic to to hydrogen 2. Apparatus fitted with a were done ln a stainless steel vacuum chamber The experlments m and nu m b eo f p o rts to p ro vl d ea cce ssfor evacuation,for mechanical anipulatlon, r diagr am the appar atus show n of is f o r e l e c t r l c a l a n d w a te r l e a d s. A schem atic in F i g u r e 2 9 . 3. Procedure
w T h e e t c he dC u r0sa mp l e a s p l acedin the holder ( HolderII in Figur e 29) , to u a n d t h e s y s t e m ta se va cu a te d 2 x lO- 5 tor r . The sam ple was cooledto OoC.
gas Hydrogen was introduced into the systemthrougha variable leak, and the pressurewas adiusted to I to 2 x l0-3 torr. The metal shutter wasmoved a to
a p o s l t l o n b e t we e n e sa mp l e n d th e filament. The fllam ent was tur ned on ( 3A) , th i the filam ent and the sample.to an d a f t e r 9 0 s th e sh u tte r w a s l o wer erto expose tinn was normally varied between and 20 5 the flow of hydrogen. The exposure wasbackfil' ledwith nitr ogen, and then the ml n . A f t e r th e tre a tme n t,th e system to systemwas opened allow removalof the sample.
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Twoprecautlonswere found to be necessary. The Cur0 sample had to be properly polished and etched. The tungstenfi'lament had to be properly cond i t i o n e d i n o rd e r to re mo ve rface oxideswhichcould other uisevolatilize su and contaminate the sample. A newtungstenfi'lamentwas heatedfor several hours ln hydrogen achieve this remova'l oxides. to of s T h e o t h e r p ro ce d u rew e re q u ite sim ilar to those descr ibed eviously. pr The Cur0was usually preparedby oxidation of Cu sheet at q,]oooocfollowed by a 5 0 0 o C n n ea l . T h e C u rO mp l e s e cut, polishedand etched, usually in a sa wer 8 M HN03. Gold contacts were used for resistivity measurements, the back and c o n t a c t w a s r e ta i n e d fo r th e ce l l s. Nor mallyfinger s wer e r 1ctapplied and an ti qbflection coatlngs were not used, but both of these could be expectedto increase the Jr. of the cells. The I-V measurements made usua'texcept that extra were as care was used to make contact with the probe
C. I. General Observiti ons E xpe rime n t a J s u t s _ Re l
The experirnents junctions were produced were successful in that Cu/CurO which p s h o w e de a s o n a b l e h o to vo l ta i cch ar acter istics. The r eductionof the Cur 0 to Cu r was provedby the fact that visible Cu films were produced prolongeC uncier treatrB n t . T h e f i l ms o fte n w e re n o t u nifor mso that the photovoltaicr esults wer e often not reproducible. Sonewhat better results were obtainedafter the precautions re n t i o n e dw e r e i n sti tu te d . T h e fi l ms wer eeasily dam aged that it was necess ar y so
t o u s e c a r e i n ma ki n g n ta ctsw i th the pr obefor I- v m easur cnents. co I n g e n era l ' th e V o . o f th e ce lls appear ed be mor er epr oducible to than the Jr.. l{oderatelygooddiode characteristics were obtained. Figure 30 shows the
I -V c h a r a c t eri sti cs i n th e d a rk a n d in the light for a fair ly goodcel' 1. It ca n be seenthat the curves resemble those for the therma'l)y evaporated cell shown in
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Flgure 2A morethan those for the cells produced hydrogen by bombardnrent, as shown F{gure28. In partlcular, the hlgh dark r.esistances in exhlbiteC the by hydrogen bombardmnt cells are not presentin the cells nadeby the atomic hydrogen reductlonprocess. Howevef, dark reversecurrentsof thesecel.ls the appear be lowerthan for the thermallyevaporated to cells, drd this maybe lndlcatlveof a cleaner Junction. ThelowerJo appeared be attributableto to the coolingof the sample duringtreatment. 2. TheOpen Circuit Vo]tase {he Vo. of thesecells werenot as hlgh as thosefor the hydrogen bombarded cells but occasionally werebetter thanthoseusuallyobtained thennally for evaporated cells. Theresults on 100ce]'lsare shown frequency in distrlbution dlagranln Flgure31. It can be seenthat the Vo. vaiuesvariedfrom0.125V to > 0.40V. Thebest valueobtal.ned 0.415V. was
3 . T h e S h o rt C l rcu l t C u rre nt T h e J r . va l u e sw e remo reh i S hly var lable, appar entlydue to the hor r - ur if or m i ty of t h e f l l m s . T h e a ctl ve 'a re a w a s dlfflcult to m easur er ihd the var iation of
the output over the area was a great prohlem,but someinformation on this was ob t a l n e db y a l a se r sca n n e r th od, me whichwi' !l be discussed the next sectio n. in T h e d l s t r l b u t l o n o f th e co p p e r,w henvisible, appear ed occur in patchesand to sometlmes moreabundant appeared under the mask. .|.5 The averagevalue of Jr. was between and 2.5 mA/cmz aLout ten percent but of t h e c e l l s h a d Jr. b e tw e e n a n d 4nA/cn?. A better contr ol of the Cu film 3 thickness should improvethe Jr.. Further improvements could come from the use of
presentedsome The reduction of Cur0 by atomic hydrogen puzzllng aspects. In particular it was not expectedthat the Cu film would scmetimes growmorerapidly
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under the maskthan on the exposed surfaces of the Cur0. A possible explanatlon for thls ls that the dlrectly exposed surfaces recelved some coatlng of tungsten a n d t u n g s t e no xl d e sr rrd th l s co uld haveinhiblted the for matlonof Cuo. An to of effort was made avoid this type of contamination,but the success the rnthod has not yet beencompletelytested. A n o t h erp o ssi b l e e xp i a n a ti o nis that the atomsin the str eamof hydr oge n a m l v l n g d l r e ctl y fro m th e fi l a ment wer e too ener geticto stick and r eact effectlvely. atomscould under go epeated r collisi ons U n d e rth e ma skth e hydr ogen
a b e t w e e nh e sa mp l e n d th e ma sk,thus incr easingthe pr obability of r eaction. t hydr ogen ' lO- 3tor r at 2700K at fre T h e c a l c u l a te dme a n e p a th o f (m olecular ) ls r u 8 0c m , a n d a t 3 0 0 K ,l t l s n ,9 cfir so that ver y few co' l]isions in the gas support phasewould be expectedunder the conditions of the experiment. Some in for this hypothesiswas obtalned from experiments which the shutter was 'left over the heatedtungstenfil awas in p l a c e w h i l e th e fl o w o f h yd ro gen m aintained nnnt. Eventhoughthere was no direct path from the fi'lament to the sample, iunctions wer e re d u c t i o no f th e C u r0su rfa ce sti 'll occur r edand photovo' ltaic have had to makeat least one atomswou'ld the obtained. Presumably hydrogen r co l l i s l o n w i th a ch a mb ew a l l b e for e amiving at the sample. Possib]ythe loss in kinetic energy. atomswere reflected at the wal'l with some hydrogen
a D . S unma ry n d Dis c u s s io n
results I n a reduction of the c th The treatmentof Cut0 bri atomi hydrogen a .junctlonwlth r ectifying and surface of the CutOto Cu p ro d u clng Cu/Cur 0 ' similar to the reduct'ionby photovoitaic properties. The processis somewhat in hydrogenbombardnnnt that the Cu metal is producedfrom the Cut0. The highest obtainedwith ther mal l y Vo . s o f a r a tta l n e d ,0 .4 1 5 V , i s higher than that nor m al' ly cells. bom bar ded ce e y a p o r a t e d l l s b u t l e ss th a n th at with hydr ogen The valuesof
with the
processln its present form ls that it produces non-uniform fi'lms of Cu metal, s o t h a t t h e fl l ms ma yb e to o th i ck in places to allow adequate iight tr ansm i s s l o no r ma yb e to o d i sco n ti n u ous places so that the cur r ent collection i.n is l n e f f i c i e nt. to a lower ed .. Jr .contr ibute could be im pr oved give Vo. valuei compar abl e I t i s p o ssl b l e th a t th e me th od to The atom ichydr ogen ethod' lssuper lor to m B o th o f th e se co uld
t o t h o s e o f hyd ro g e n o mb a rd e d lls. b ce
methodin that it avoids the productionof a high bombardment the hydrogen resistance layer of Cur0. of The best direction for further improvement the methodis to nodify the pr o c e s ss o a s to a ch i e vemo reu n i for mCu film s. Onepossibi' lity maybe to lnser t
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SCANNER IV . LASER
A.
I ntrcductl on
valuesof the cells give average of Theusual I-V measurementsphotovoltaic the output. In som caseslt ls useful to examlne output In detall from polnt to polnt on the surfaceln order to checkthe uniformityof the output, or to variables. This canbe locatebadspotsandto correlatethesewlth processing the a by d,one conveniently moving small spot of light from a laser acnoss sample the outputon a suitableoscilloscope.Apparatus on a raster andthendisplaying (32). by ird developed severalgroupsr expecially Sawyer by to do this havebeen (33) that the method couldbe prellmlnary w0 experlrnents, haveshown In some Cut0 applledto Cur0cells. In order to havethe capabilityof further studylng was in apparatus constructed this laboratory. a celis ln this rnanner, laser scanner
B . Appar atus components.The was largely constructedfrom conmercla'l The apparatus prlnclprl components were two optlcal scanners(GeneralScannlng,Inc., Mode'l Scanning, Inc., Hodel co G- 3 0 0 P D )a chw l th a sca n n e r n tro' l- am plifier( Gener al e Inc., l- lodel ihd CR- 80- 2SP- BRH) , d a a CC X- l O 2 - 3 ) , h e l {u m-n e oln se r (Coher ent, of Tektrpnlx storuge oscllloscope (Tektronlx tlodel 5441). A number other parts wenesecuredor constructedto completethe assembly. A photoand components a ln graph of the apparatusls shown Flgure 32. Flgure 33 shows block dlagram of the apparatus. C . 0 o e ra tionof Laser Scanner l. G e ne ra l
hor l fro T h e b e am m th e H e -N ea se r ls swepttcr oss the sam p' le lzontally and signal fr om v e r t l c a l l y b y th e tw o o sci l l a ti n g mir r or s, eachdr iven by a sawtooth
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d e f l e c t l on sl g n a l r th d th e re sponse vlewed the stor ageoscilloscopea s a is on representatlonof the output of the cell as a function of "three dlnrenslonal" t h e p o s l tfo n o n th e su rfa ce . The dlsplay can be r ecor ded m ediate' ly ir with a Polarold camera attachment. A s ca no f a g o o dsi l i co n cell is shown Figur e 34. .Thehor izontal li nes in r e p r e s e n tth e l n d l vi d u a l sw e e ps the x dir ection. Eachsucceeding in sweeps i d l s p l a c e dre g u l a rl y u p w a rdn the y- dir ection by the scanner i contr o' land is f u r t h e r d lsp l a ce db y th e va ri a ble photo- output slgnal. The near ly ver tical f u r r o w s a re d u e to th e co n ta ct finger s blocking out the light and r educingthe o u t p u t . Be tw e e n e fu rro w s the output is r elatively constantindicating a th h i g h d e g re eo f u n i fo n n i ty i n this cell. T h e re so l u ti o n d e p e n d sn par t on the light spot size, which in these i e x p e r l m e n ts a s 1 0 0 u m. T h e si gnal fr om bhecel] can be chosen em phasi z e w to e i t h e r t h e vo l ta g e (V o .) o r th e cur r ent ( Jr .) . t h e h i g h i mp e d a n cef th e a mp l ifier is utilized. o In the voltage r node, Figur e 35A, In the cur r ent m ode,the c el l
i s l o a d e dw i th a l o w re si sta n ceload, as shown Figur e 358. The output of in a s i l l c o n ce l l a s a fu n cti o n o f load r esistanceis shown Figur e 35. The outin p u t l s l l n ea r u p to 1 0 0 A a n d tends to level off at ver y high r esistance, r ] F o r C u l C urO l l s' th e o u tp u t w as linear to 300o. ce v o l t a g e m o d e a su su a l l y u se d . w 2. ExampJ of U.se. es Sgme k O.
ti The out;:ut of a representa ve cel I madeby the atomic hydrogenreduction I I s shown n Fl gure 37. Fl gure 38 shows s u rf a c e s c a n o f a Cu / Cu r0c e l I mad e a
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Flgure 39 showsthe surface scan of a Cu/Cur0 cell made atomlc hydrogen by t re a t m n t , s ho vti n g ve ry i rre g u l a r output. A single sweep oughthis cell i s a thr l s h o w nn F f g u re4 0 A ' i l l u stra ti n g the lar ge var iation in output. Figur e 40B s h o r s a s i m l l a r sw e e p n a C u /C u r0 o cell pr epar ed ther m alevapor ation, by which s h o r s a n p n eco n sta n to u tp u t. B y l oading the two cells with the sam e esistanc e, r on e c o u l d u s e th e th e rma l l ye va p o rated cell as a calibr ation to calculate the po s s i b l ee f f i ci e n cy o f th e e xp e ri mental celt if it had a unifor moutput equival ent to the peakoutput. D . Discussion aboveI 11ustrate the potential i ti es of the Ja s e r s c a n ne r The exampl shown es app a r a t u s s a d i a g n o sti c to o l fo r detecting faul ts i n photovol i c c e lls . a ta ( f ur t h e r d l s c u ssi o nh a s b e e ng i ve n b y Sawyer 32) .
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S e v e r a loth e r p ro j e cts h a veb eeninitiated with the expectationthat they of oxide photovo' ltaic c a n c o n t r l b u t e to th e fu rth e r d e ve lopntent cupr ous celis. Seve r a lo f t h ese w i l l b e d e scri b e dher e br iefly.
B. Float Zone . Re f in in g o f Cu r0
T h e p u r i f ica ti o n o f C u r0b y fl o at zoner efining is being investigated. Th e it which is l f lo a t z o n em e th o d s u se fu l b e ca u se is a cr ucible- fr ee method, C b n e c e s s a r y e c au se u r0re a cts w i th all cr ucible m ater ials jeading to contam inati on. VZA- 3 Float Zoner( 34). u T h e a p p ara tu s se dh a s b e e nmodlfledfr om a Siemens bV A m o l t e nz o n el s l n l ti a te d i n a 3 /8 " r od of Cur O induction heatingand the of through the rod by movement the induction coil. zone is passeiiupward Thls
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c a r r i e s t h e i mp u ri ti e s w i th th e me lt in faVor able casesand leaves behinda pur er re-grownrod. The processcan be repeatedto achievefurther purification. By u s e o f a sl n g l e crysta l se edat the tip it is possible to gr owsingle c ry s t a l s c f Cu r0 . S l i ce s fro m th e s e single cr ystals havebeenusedoccasional l y p t o t e s t t h e n e wce l l p ro ce ssi n g rocedur es. This is only of value for exper im ent al p t r p o s e ss i n ce th e p u ri fi ca ti o n and single cr ystal gr owthpr ocedur es e too ar invo l v e da n d exp e n si ve b e u se dfor makinginexpensive to cells. A n o t h e rasp e cto f th i s p ro Je ctwhich is Just being star ted is to intr oduc e lm p u r l t l e s i n to zo n ere fl n e d C u r0 , possibly in single cr ystals, by the method o f z o n el e v e l l i n g (3 5 ). T h i s w i ]l be donewith ir on, cobalt, and nickel, and per h a p s t h e r su i ta b l e e l e me n ts. T hesesamples will be studied by electr on spin o b res o n a n c w i t h D r. C . S ch w a a t th e Univer sity of Str asbour g oughan NSFe thr s p o n s o r e c o l la b o ra tl o n . d
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lnto Cur Ois being star ted with the objectlve A p r o J e cto n l o n i mp l a n ta tl o rr pof t r y i n g t o p re p a ren -typ e C u r0a nd thus pr oduce n junctions in Cur 0. The i d o p l n go f C u r 0w a s d l scu sse d n a p r eviousr epor t ( 2d) . Cur 0has beenpr epar ed onl y l n t h e p -typ e fo rm so th a t a l l cell wor k so far has beendonewith Schottky it tr b a n r l e r s a n d he te ro Ju n cti o n s.A p p ar ent' ly is not possib' le pr epar en- type it Cu r 0u n d e rt h e rma le q u i l i b ri u m co n ditions. l,lith ion im plantatio,r m aybe pos s i bl e especially in conjunction co with laser t o a c h i e v en o n -e q u i l i b ri u m mp o sitions in a n n e a l i n g . I f p -n i u n cti o n s ca n b e pr epar ed Cur O,this shour dgive higher V o . ( > 1 . 0 V ) a n d g re a te r e ffi ci e n cy. P554B impl.r nter ion has beensecur e d F o r t h e i o n i mp l a n ta ti o n ,a u sed0RTEC to and t h i s i s b ei n g p u t i n to co n d i ti o n for the exper im ents. It is planned use is f h a l o g e n so r t h e fi rst i mp l a n ta ti o ns. The' laserannea' ling being donewith a D ) pul s e dd y e l a se r (P h a se -R L -1 0 0 0oper atingat n,560nr n.
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D . A n a l ysl s,a n dPur lfication of Cu and Cu20 A s d l scu sse d a rl l e r l n th l s r epor t and in the pr evlousr epor t ( Za) , ttre e q u a l l t y o f th e sta rtl n g C u a t 9 9 .999+% is pr obablynot goodenough. Better Cu q u a l l t y C u w o u l dyi e l d b e tte r C ur 0and this shouldlead to impr oved .. Thi s Jr 'raises the question of the methods determiningthe impurities at concentraof tlons of n,I ppm. m T h e f l r st p ro b l e m s to d e v elop ethods analysis in or der to deter ml ne l of w h i c h l m p u ri ti e s a re p re se n t, h o wtitey ar e r edistr ibuted in the var ious pr oces s l ng pur st e p s a n d h o we ffe cti ve p ro p o se d ificar ,icn pr ocedur es will be. The pr inc i pal u a n a l y t l c a l m e th o d se dp re se n tl y is atom icabsor ptionspectr oscopy which maybe that it deter m lnes y a d e q u a t eo r so me l e me n ts,b u t l t has the dlsaCvantage f e onl u a o n e e l e m e n t t a tl me . [,l ema y' s e the faci]itles of a local .lndustr ial labor ator y , wfth an lnductively coupled d w h l c h h a s a co mp u te rl zee ml ssl onspectr ogr aph preliminary analyseshave beenmade. plasmasourceand automaticread-out. Some i to f I n b o t h o f th e se me th o d st w l l l be necessar y developsuitable standar ds or th e a n a l y s es. in C h e m lcaa n a l ysl s ma yn o t b e sufficient in all cases. lor exam ple, the l or cooling, it m aybe that s om e a n n e a l i n go f C u rO,e i th e r a t 5 0 0 "C by pr ogr essive and thus ar e r emov ed lm p u r i t l e s arc, p re cl p l ta te d l n te rnally as separ atephases fr o m t h e C u r0 l a ttl ce . If th i s {s so, par t of the beneficial effect of the a n-
par tially in this m anner . Chemical analys l s n e a l l n g m a yb e to p u ri fy th e C u rO would not reveal this. of the total sample Onepossible method test for to
on to this condition is to use electron microscopy properly preparedsamples phases and then to analyzethese by electron mlcroprcbe. Iocate any segregated T h e p u rl fl ca tl o n o f th e co p perwouldbe a for mldableunder taklng. Le basedon careful electrorefinlng followed a Hdrlcy (.tg) has developed procedure by float zone reflnlng. in He succeeded reducingthe iron content in Cu to I
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part In 108. Slnce our requirements maybe satisfied wlth a lower degreeof p u r l f i c a t i o n , w e ma yb e a b l e to sl mpllfy the pr ocedur e, .g. by hor izontal z o n er e f l n l n g i n a b o a t, fo l l o w e d b y electr or eflning. Equipnnnt do this to prellminary experiments has beenassembled some and have beenundertaken. l l h e np u r lfl e d ra te rr.rl b e co mes available, lt will be posslble to take u p m o r . e e f l n l tl ve e xp e rl me n ts i th lntentional doplng. This could yield d w lo w e r n e s l s t l vl tv cu rOw h l chw o u l dl ead to lmpr oved l efficiency. cel'
VI.
method The hydrogen bombardment has shown that it is possible to prepare Cu/C u r 0 e l l s wl th a V o . rp to 0 .7 2 U. The Vo. was found to be r elatively c ln d e p e n d e n tf th e b o mb a rd me n tl tage' but the Jr . of the celJs incr eased vo o with loltage. lower bombardmenl processwas examined Augeranalysis and of The mechanlsm the bombardment by by electron mlcroscopy. Theseshowed that the effect of the hydrogen bombardmentwas to reducethe top layers of the Cur0 to Cu thus creating a Cu/Cur0 into the Cur 0followed a Gaussian J u n c t l o n . T h e p e n e tra tl o no f th e h ydr ogen d ls tr l b u t l o n w l th th e p e a ko f th e d l str lbutlon m ovlng lnwar dwlth incr easlng voltage. At lovrervoltages, the Cuowas concentrated bonrbardment near the yielde d s urfa c e s o t h a t th e C u fl l m w a s th l n ner and the better light tr ansm ission Jr.. an improved At least a certain bombardment was necessary obtain time to
a d e q u a t e o n t i nu l ty i n th e C u fi l m i n or der to havelow r esistancein the contac ts . c were a bonbardment voltage of 250 V and a bombardThe optlmuncondltlons f'ound mnt t l m o f 7 5 s. T h e ce l l s e xh i b ited a lar ge dar k r esistancewhichwasascr ibed
produced to a layer of lntrinsic Cur0Just belov the metal contact, presumably by of at a small amount hydrogen these depths. It is believed that further
lm p r o v e r c n t sn ce l l q u a l l ty co u l d be r m dewlth additlonal vari atl ons I n the l procedure,.9. a sequence low bombardment of voltages. T h e b e s t o ve ra l l co n ve rsi o n fficiency obtainedwith these cells was 1.3fl. e However, the best individual values for the parameters obtained in thls laboratory are Vo. = 0.72 U, Jr. = 7.0 rnA/crnz FF = 0.6. and If these were to be
c o m b l n e d a s i n g l e ce l l , th i s w o uldyield an efficiency of 3.0%. Sever al in n s m a l l l n c r e m en ta il mp ro ve me nits these par am eter Sr .g. l0% in each, could brin g t h e e f f i ci e n cy to 4 .0 %,th u s reachingthe near ter m goa' lof 4- 6%. Beyond
this; the theoreticalestimates the efficiencyare 13 to 22%. That these of be is by theoretical valuescou'ld approached supported the fact that for Si valuesof the efficiencyhavebeen brought andGaAs cells, the experimental closeto th e th eoteti c alv al ues . question whatefficiencyis necessary cormercial An important is for use.
efficiency that can be A pr e v a l ' e n t xp e rt" o p i n i o n i s th a t lOU is the m inimum "e a b us e d . H o w e v er, n a l yse s y S ch u e l er( 36) end by l,lolf ( 37) showthat efficiencie s belo w4 X c o u l d b e u se d l f th e syste n ls sul' ficiently low ln cost. 0f cour se, a la r g e r a r e a ls re q u l re d fo r l o w e fficiency cells and this m aybecome the lim i t i n g f a c t o r. A 5 X e ffi ci e n t ce l l can pr oduce 0.25 kt,{ .hr /m 2.day electr ica l of
a u ene r g y . F o r a h o u se h o l d sa g eo f l 0 kW .hr /day, photocell ar ea of 40 m2would be r e q u i r e d , o r l 2 x 3 0 ft2 , w h i ch c ould easily fit on the r oof of a house. ab A s s h o w n o ve ,e ffl ci e n ci e s fo r Cur 0cells of 4t can r ealistically be l0X are concelvable. The strategy expected. Efflclencles up to and exceeding that can be taken to achlevea 41 efficiency as a near tevrngoal is flrst to
and then to improvesome all of or comblnethe best values of the parameters these lncrementally. ln The large lmprovennnt Vo., uP to 0.7e V, obtalned by hydrogenbonrbardrnent str s ho w s h a t t h i s ca n b e o b ta i n e di n a CulCur 0 uctur e. This is not necessar ll y t
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the llnit,
the built-ln potential and therefore Vo.. Loweringthe Fermienergyfrom 0.35 eV t o 0 . 1 e V c o u l d ra l se th e V o . a b o v e0.9V. Larger values of Vo. could com from the use oi junctions other than Cu/Cur0, e.g . o t h e r S ch o ttkyb a mi e rs, i f they can be stabilized, heter ojunctions, a or p- n J u n c t i o n. H e te ro j u n cti o n s a vebeenstudied to some h extent in this labor a tor y (3 8 ) , b u t i t i s n o t p l a n n e d re tur n to this soon, as a m atter of expedienc y . to Th e p r i n c i p a l e ffo rt sh o u l db e p l a cedon im pr oving the CulCur 0 cel' l to achiev e the near tenn goal. Some effort wi'll be devotedto trying to producep-n equlpm ent it if J u n c t l o n sb y l o n l mp ]a n ta tl o n . T hls will be doneon the 0RTEC c a n b e m a d e e ra ti .o n aw i th th e resour ces op l available. In addition, som e explor ai w t o r y l m p l a n ta tl o n s i l 'l b e ma d e n a local industr ial labor ator y. The initial imp l a n t sw i l l b e d o n ew i th h a l o g e ns, g. fluor ine. e. nethod has the disadvantage bombar'dment The hydrogen that it gives cel'ls with lowet Jr. than other methods. This maybe due to the fact that the penetrais tion of the hydrogen too deepat the bombardment voltages used so that the Cu f i l m i s t oo th i ck, re d u ci n gth e light tr ansm ission, and that a high r esistanc e ln layer ls produced the Cur0. Thus it maybe desirable to re-examine the voltage to see lf these effects can be reduced reglon of low bombardment with a s h a l l o w e rl n t r o d u cti o n o f h yd ro g e n. Thls could be donewith a.pr ogr am low of vo b o m b a r d m e ntl ta g e s, fi rst sta rti ng with the lowest voltages, .g. 25- 50 V, a n d l n c r e a s l n gth e vo l ta g e i n ste p s to 100- 200 V. The initially fonnedCu wo ul d
bombardments. the succeeding act as a barrler to moderate Also a top layer of to Sl0 * c o u l d b e a p p l l e d fi rst b e fo re the bombar dment achievea slmilar effect. to it Howeyer, maynot be necessary makethe Junctions by the hydrogen bombombardment method. It maybe that the chief value of the hydrogen bardment th wlth ex p e r l r n n t sl s to d e mo n stra te a t'Vo. valuesup to 0,72 V ar e achievable
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Cu/CuZ0 iunctlons.
Ju n c t l o n , l .e . a cl e a n Ju n cti o n , by other m thods, .9. by r educfionas wlth rtomlc hydrcgen by better prcparatlon of the Gur0 surface with better or etchants, followed by thermal evaporationof Cu. Some experinrents these of klnds have shown lmproved vo. but not yet ts consistenily as the hydiogenbombardment rnthod. Further lmprovements would come from lmprovements the quallty of the ln C u r o . T h e pa rtl cu l a r.q u a l l tl e s that ar e of lm por tance e the diffuslon len gth ar a n d t h e r e s l sti vl ty. T h e J.. d e pends the electr on diffusion iength, Ln. F or on la r g e L n ' t he th e o re ti ca l va l u e s for the lim it of Jr ..t (rg a s n , 2 0 m A/cm2 ). Al{ 0has beencalcul ated
" , 1 7 n A/ c m2 . A b o u t7 5 1 o f th e l l mlting value could be obtainedwith a diffusl on I e n g t h o f r 'tO u m. l ,l e a su reva l ues of the Ln in cur O havebeen ' \,1- 2 um ( ld ) but d values up to 8 umhave beenreported by our Frenchcollaborators (40). The diffusion length depends the lifetime of the minority carriers. on the llfetim' To increase
one must reducethe number recombination of centers. Thls would b e a c h l e v e d p ro p e r p u rl fl ca ti o n and annealingof the Cur O. by L o w e r in g e re si sti vi ty co uld lm pr ove th both Jr " and FF ( 25) . Eventhe Vo. co u l d b e i m pro ve d , f th e l o w e re dr esistivity ' leadsto a substantial decr easen i i t h e F e n n l e n e rg y,a s l n d l ca te d a bove. At pr esent, the lowest r eslstfvity norm al l y o b t a l n e dl s q ,1 0 0O'cmb u t va l u e sdownto 60 Q.cmhavebeenobtalnedln lsolated ln s t a n c e s . At th e u su a l th l ckn e ssof Cur 0, thls glves a cell r eslstanceof 6- 12 o' nrd this needsto be loweredto lmprovethe efficiency. To sorne extent
t h l s c o u l d be d o n ew i th p re se n tmater lals by using thinner film s, c.9. r educlng the thlckness from 200 pm to 20 um. This would lncrease FF substanilally and the rlr. to some extent. The thlnner fllms would have to be supported.
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The quallty of the Cur0 ls dependent the purity of the starting Cu and on materlal. the processlngprocedures. It rppears that CurOls a heavlly compensated F o r 9 9 . 9 9 $ t C u th e l mp u rl ty co n tent of ]0 ppm could glve an lmpur lty concentr atl on o f n ,l o l T - 1 0 l 8 .r-3 . with the nor malcar r ie r T h l s fs q u l te lar ge in compar ison purposes would be desirable For experimental it
by t o p u r l f y t h e C u su b sta n tl a l l y' p er haps electr or efining and zoner eflnlng. could A f t e r t h e o x ld a tl o n o f th e C u to Cur O,the native defect concentr ations at , b e m o d l f l e dby p ro p e ra n n e a l i n g ,p r esumably 500oC. Howeverlt wouldbe deslrab'leto add effectlve dopantsto the purified Cu or CurOto reducethe resl stl vl ty. to After the experlmentalfacts are understood,it maynot be necessary of p u r l f y t h e C u e xte n sl ve l y l f ce rtaln lm pur ltles or conbinatlons impur ltles ar e a v o i d e d . A n i n d i ca ti o n o f th l s ls that the highest Jr . attained so far , copper, with a nominalpurity was obtainedwith a 'lot of cormercial OFE 7 rnA/cn?, C of 9 9 . 9 5 + Z u . p especially the annealing,wouldalso ha v e T h e p r o p e r p ro ce ssl n g ro ce d ur es, m cer t o b e e s t a b l lsh e d . P a rt o f th e e ffect of the annealing aybe to r emove ta i n lm p u r i t y n n t al o xl d e s fro m th e C u r0lattice by inter nal pr ecipitation, e.g. at g ra i n b o u n d a ri e s. A fa cto r th a t could com plicate this, and mayhaveaffected the solublllty e a r l l e r r e s u l ts, l s th a t a ci d i c o xides suchas Sl0, could change o f b a s l c o x i d e s su ch a s !1 9 0 ,e tc. The annea' ling also adjusts the concentr ation
and oxygen vacancles, whlchar e o f t h e n a t l v e d e i e ctsr co p p ra to mvacancles can be th b e l l e v e d t o de te rmi n e e ca rri e r c oncentr ation. If effective dopants defect concentrationsby a found, lt maybe deslrable to reducethe competing l co c h a n g e n a n ne a l l n g n d i ti o n s.
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In sunmaryr for wide scale cormercial use of photovoltaic what ls needed c el l s f o r s o l a r e n e rg yco n ve rsi o ns not a technically excellent cell. i Such
c e ' l l s a l r e a d y e xi st, b u t th e y a re n ot wldely.used because cost. tlhat ls of n e e d e ds a c e l l o f a cce p ta b 'lq u a lity whichwi' ll m eetthe dem ands the l e of ma r k e tp l a c e in te rms o f co st. C u pr ous oxioe could pr ovide low cost cells ( 41) , in but must be lmproved somewhat efficiency. A possib'legoal to reach thls
ls a n e f f l c l e ncy o f 4 %, It l s re a l lstic to believe that this can be r eached wlt h C u r 0a s a n e a r te rm g o a l , w i th fur ther expectations eventually of reaching 10% greater. or
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