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@ARTICLE{Pomaska:808999,
author = {Pomaska, Manuel and Köhler, Florian and Zastrow, Uwe and
Mock, Jan and Pennartz, Frank and Muthmann, Stefan and
Astakhov, Oleksandr and Carius, Reinhard and Finger,
Friedhelm and Ding, Kaining},
title = {{N}ew insight into the microstructure and doping of
unintentionally n-type microcrystalline silicon carbide},
journal = {Journal of applied physics},
volume = {119},
number = {17},
issn = {1089-7550},
address = {Melville, NY},
publisher = {American Inst. of Physics},
reportid = {FZJ-2016-02486},
pages = {175303},
year = {2016},
abstract = {Microcrystalline silicon carbide (μc-SiC:H) deposited by
hot wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD) and
plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) provide
advantageous opto-electronic properties, making it
attractive as a window layer material in silicon thin-film
and silicon heterojunction solar cells. However, it is still
not clear which electrical transport mechanisms yield dark
conductivities up to 10−3 S/cm without the active use of
any doping gas and how the transport mechanisms are related
to the morphology of μc-SiC:H. To investigate these open
questions systematically, we investigated HWCVD and PECVD
grown layers that provide a very extensive range of dark
conductivity values from 10−12 S/cm to 10−3 S/cm. We
found out by secondary ion mass spectrometry measurements
that no direct correlation exists between oxygen or nitrogen
concentrations and high dark conductivity σd, high charge
carrier density n, and low activation energy Ea. Higher σd
seems to rise from lower hydrogen concentrations or/and
larger coherent domain sizes LSiC. On the one hand, the
decrease of σd with increasing hydrogen concentration might
be due to the inactivation of donors by hydrogen passivation
that gives rise to decreased n. On the other hand,
qualitatively consistent with the Seto model, the lower σd
and lower n might be caused by smaller LSiC, since the
fraction of depleted grain boundaries with higher Ea
increases accordingly.},
cin = {IEK-5},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-5-20101013},
pnm = {121 - Solar cells of the next generation (POF3-121) / HITEC
- Helmholtz Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training in Energy
and Climate Research (HITEC) (HITEC-20170406)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-121 / G:(DE-Juel1)HITEC-20170406},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000377716500035},
doi = {10.1063/1.4948479},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/808999},
}