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@ARTICLE{Smirnov:809697,
author = {Smirnov, V. and Lambertz, Andreas and Moll, Sandra and
Bär, M. and Starr, D. E. and Wilks, R. G. and Gorgoi, M.
and Heidt, Anna and Luysberg, Martina and Holländer,
Bernhard and Finger, Friedhelm},
title = {{D}oped microcrystalline silicon oxide alloys for
silicon-based photovoltaics: {O}ptoelectronic properties,
chemical composition, and structure studied by advanced
characterization techniques},
journal = {Physica status solidi / A},
volume = {213},
number = {7},
issn = {1862-6300},
address = {Weinheim},
publisher = {Wiley-VCH},
reportid = {FZJ-2016-02626},
pages = {1814 - 1820},
year = {2016},
abstract = {Doped microcrystalline silicon oxide (μc-SiOx:H) alloys
attract significant attention as a functional material in
photovoltaic devices. By using various advanced
characterization methods, we have studied the relationship
between optoelectronic properties, chemical composition, and
structure of p-type µc-SiOx:H deposited by plasma enhanced
chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). For a wide range of
compositions with varying oxygen content, we show that the
dominant components are Si and a-SiO2, while the fraction of
suboxides is minor. The μc-SiOx:H material with sufficient
oxygen content (x = 0.35) exhibits an enlarged optical
gap E04 > 2.2 eV and sufficiently high dark
conductivity >10−6 S cm−1; the crystalline silicon
fraction has a filament-like shape (with a typical width of
around 10 nm) forming a branch-like structure elongated in
the growth direction over several hundreds of nanometers},
cin = {IEK-5},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-5-20101013},
pnm = {121 - Solar cells of the next generation (POF3-121)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-121},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000385222900024},
doi = {10.1002/pssa.201533022},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/809697},
}