Effect of heat treatment of spin-cast solar silicon sheet on crystalline defects
- Authors
- Kim, Hyunhui; Lee, Jaewoo; Lee, Changbum; Kim, Joonsoo; Jang, Bo-yun; Lee, Jinseok; Yoon, Wooyoung
- Issue Date
- 7월-2013
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
- Keywords
- Spin-casting; Silicon ribbon; Defects; Heat treatment; Low-temperature photoluminescence
- Citation
- CURRENT APPLIED PHYSICS, v.13, pp.S88 - S92
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- CURRENT APPLIED PHYSICS
- Volume
- 13
- Start Page
- S88
- End Page
- S92
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/102768
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.cap.2013.01.015
- ISSN
- 1567-1739
- Abstract
- Silicon sheets were fabricated via spin-casting, which is a ribbon manufacturing method for photovoltaics. Although the advantages of spin-casting include rapid processing and mass production with no silicon loss, crystalline defects such as random grain boundaries (CBs), sub-CBs, or dislocations are generated from rapid solidification. These defects are an important factor in the decreased conversion efficiency of solar cells. Spin-cast sheets were annealed at 950 degrees C, 1200 degrees C, and 1350 degrees C for 2 h to eliminate defects and to increase the grain size. The effect of thermal processing on the sheets was analyzed by comparing them with as-cast sheets and investigated by electron backscattered diffraction, photoluminescence, and etch-pit density. It was confirmed that sub-CBs were almost completely assimilated with neighboring grains with the 1350 degrees C heat treatment. Suppression of dislocations was observed through the decrease in the D-band peak with low-temperature photoluminescence (PL, 10 K), and few dislocation clusters were observed from the Secco-etched sheet annealed at 1350 degrees C. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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