Surface Passivation Study on Gettered Multicrystalline Silicon
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In this study the electronic quality of multicrystalline silicon material in the as grown state and after various POCl3 diffusion steps is analyzed. For this purpose two different surface passivations (quinhydrone-methanol and a-Si:H) are tested and also their reproducibility is checked. It is found that the chemical passivation using quinhydrone-methanol is more complicated to apply for detecting small differences on a relatively high lifetime level which can be reached by the applied POCl3 diffusions on the Si materials under investigation.
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