Passivation and stability of thermal atomic layer deposited Al2O3 on CZ-Si

He Yue; Dou Ya-Nan; Ma Xiao-Guang; Chen Shao-Bin; Chu Jun-Hao

doi:10.7498/aps.61.248102

Abstract

Atomic layer deposited (ALD) aluminum oxide (Al2O3) has been known as an almost-perfect candidate of passivation dielectric layer for PERC-type c-Si solar cell. Its passivation performance and thermal stability are key issues for industrial PERC c-Si solar cell based on screen-printed technology. In this paper, 20 nm and 30nm Al2O3 films are synthesized on the solar grade CZ-Si by thermal atomic layer deposition. The results show that the effective lifetime can reach 100 μs for CZ-Si after annealing and is kept a half after the sintering process in the industrial beltline furnace, and the materials can be used in PERC-type solar cell. The SEM image demonstrates that the blisters occur in a thicker Al2O3 film, which explains why the passivation and thermal stability of 30 nm film are inferior to those of 20 nm film.

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Authors and contacts

1.
Suntech Power Co., Ltd., Shanghai 200114, China;
2.
National Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China
Funds: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 60821092, U1037604), the Shanghai Rising-Star Program (Grants No. 11QB1406800), and the Innovation Project of Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics (No. Q-ZY-51).

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