Semiconductor Wafer Bonding for Solar Cell Applications: A Review

K Tanabe - Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wafer bonding is a highly effective technique for integrating dissimilar semiconductor
materials while suppressing the generation of crystalline defects that commonly occur during …

III‐V//Si multijunction solar cells with 30% efficiency using smart stack technology with Pd nanoparticle array

K Makita, H Mizuno, T Tayagaki… - Progress in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Multijunction (MJ) solar cells achieve very high efficiencies by effectively utilizing the entire
solar spectrum. Previously, we constructed a III‐V//Si MJ solar cell using the smart stack …

Mechanical stacked GaAs//CuIn1−yGaySe2 three‐junction solar cells with 30% efficiency via an improved bonding interface and area current‐matching technique

K Makita, Y Kamikawa, T Koida… - Progress in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Multijunction (MJ) solar cells have attracted considerable attention as next‐generation solar
cells. III–V‐based MJ solar cells connected to heterogeneous cells, such as GaAs//Si and …

Au–Au surface-activated bonding and its application to optical microsensors with 3-D structure

E Higurashi, D Chino, T Suga… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hybrid integration of multiple optical chips in three dimensions is an important technology for
realizing highly functional, compact optoelectronic microsystems. In this paper, we report …

Room-temperature bonding of Al2O3 thin films deposited using atomic layer deposition

R Takakura, S Murakami, K Watanabe, R Takigawa - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
In this study, room-temperature wafer bonding of Al2O3 thin films on Si thermal oxide wafers,
which were deposited using atomic layer deposition (ALD), was realized using the surface …

Effect of Au film thickness and surface roughness on room-temperature wafer bonding and wafer-scale vacuum sealing by Au-Au surface activated bonding

M Yamamoto, T Matsumae, Y Kurashima, H Takagi… - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Au-Au surface activated bonding (SAB) using ultrathin Au films is effective for room-
temperature pressureless wafer bonding. This paper reports the effect of the film thickness …

III‐V//CuxIn1−yGaySe2 multijunction solar cells with 27.2% efficiency fabricated using modified smart stack technology with Pd nanoparticle array and adhesive …

K Makita, Y Kamikawa, H Mizuno… - Progress in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Multijunction (MJ) solar cells achieve high efficiencies by effectively utilizing the solar
spectrum. Previously, we have developed III‐V MJ solar cells using smart stack technology …

Fabrication of heterogeneous LNOI photonics wafers through room temperature wafer bonding using activated Si atomic layer of LiNbO3, glass, and sapphire

K Watanabe, R Takigawa - Applied Surface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
We proposed a room-temperature wafer-bonding method using activated Si atomic layer
and verify its effectiveness for the fabrication of glass-or sapphire-based LiNbO 3-on …

Room-temperature bonding of wafers with smooth Au thin films in ambient air using a surface-activated bonding method

E Higurashi, K Okumura, Y Kunimune… - IEICE Transactions …, 2017 - search.ieice.org
Wafers with smooth Au thin films (rms surface roughness:< 0.5 nm, thickness:< 50nm) were
successfully bonded in ambient air at room temperature after an Ar radio frequency plasma …

Thin-film lithium niobate-on-insulator waveguides fabricated on silicon wafer by room-temperature bonding method with silicon nanoadhesive layer

R Takigawa, T Asano - Optics Express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Lithium niobate-on-insulator (LNOI) waveguides fabricated on a silicon wafer using a room-
temperature bonding method have potential application as Si-based high-density photonic …