Investigation of rapid thermal oxide/ silicon nitride passivation stack of nþ emitter

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To anticipate the initial phosphorus diffusion parameters of silicon solar cells process fabrication, we report in this paper an overview of our experiments on silicon nþ-emitters passivation by means of rapid thermal silicon oxide/silicon nitride stack. The process-induced changes have been evaluated and explained.We found that 900 C and 80 s were the appropriate process parameters to grow 10 nm silicon oxide. Investigation of the effect of this oxidation on nþ multicrystalline silicon emitters revealed a large decrease (more than 25%) of the sheet resistance and around 12% increase of the junction depth. The experiments also revealed that the passivation effect of the optimal silicon oxide/silicon nitride stack is efficient only for higher emitter quality. In addition, we found that this stack reduces the surface reflection more than the optimal single silicon nitride layer.

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