Improved interface microstructure between crystalline silicon and nanocrystalline silicon oxide window layer of silicon heterojunction solar cells

Y Zhou, L Zhang, W Liu, H Zhang, S Huang… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
N-type hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon oxide (nc-SiO x: H) is potential to enhance the
performance of silicon heterojunction solar cells, but the raised plasma damage on …

Pressure dependent structural and optical properties of silicon carbide thin films deposited by hot wire chemical vapor deposition from pure silane and methane gases

F Shariatmadar Tehrani, BT Goh, MR Muhamad… - Journal of Materials …, 2013 - Springer
Silicon carbide (SiC) thin films were deposited using hot wire chemical vapor deposition
technique from silane (SiH 4) and methane (CH 4) gas precursors. The effect of deposition …

Controlled-bandgap silicon nitride nanomaterials: deterministic nitrogenation in high-density plasmas

Q Cheng, S Xu, KK Ostrikov - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
To overcome major problems associated with insufficient incorporation of nitrogen in
hydrogenated amorphous silicon nitride (a-SiNx: H) nanomaterials, which in turn impedes …

High band gap nanocrystallite embedded amorphous silicon prepared by hotwire chemical vapour deposition

P Gogoi, HS Jha, P Agarwal - Thin Solid Films, 2010 - Elsevier
Hydrogenated silicon films ranging from pure amorphous to biphasic silicon ie,
nanocrystallites embedded amorphous silicon are prepared in an indigenously fabricated …

Hydrogenated Nanocrystalline Silicon Thin Films Prepared by Hot‐Wire Method with Varied Process Pressure

VS Waman, AM Funde, MM Kamble… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon films were prepared by hot‐wire method at low
substrate temperature (200∘ C) without hydrogen dilution of silane (SiH4). A variety of …

Effect of substrate temperature on gold-catalyzed silicon nanostructures growth by hot-wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD)

SK Chong, BT Goh, Z Aspanut, MR Muhamad… - Applied Surface …, 2011 - Elsevier
The effect of substrate temperature on the structural property of the silicon nanostructures
deposited on gold-coated crystal silicon substrate by hot-wire chemical vapor deposition …

Role of electrochemical process parameters on the electrodeposition of silicon from 1-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium bis (trifluoromethanesulfonyl) imide ionic liquid

S Thomas, D Kowalski, M Molinari, J Mallet - Electrochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The electrodeposition from Room Temperature Ionic Liquids (RTILs) has recently
emerged as a low cost technique for the growth of group IV thin films or nanostructures …

Amorphous, polymorphous, and microcrystalline silicon thin films deposited by plasma at low temperatures

M Moreno, R Ambrosio, A Torres… - Crystalline and Non …, 2016 - books.google.com
The present chapter is devoted to the study of amorphous (a-Si: H), polymorphous (pm-Si:
H), and microcrystalline (μc-Si: H) silicon, deposited by the plasma-enhanced chemical …

Inductively and capacitively coupled plasmas at interface: A comparative study towards highly efficient amorphous-crystalline Si solar cells

Y Guo, TMB Ong, I Levchenko, S Xu - Applied Surface Science, 2018 - Elsevier
A comparative study on the application of two quite different plasma-based techniques to the
preparation of amorphous/crystalline silicon (a-Si: H/c-Si) interfaces for solar cells is …

Properties of a-Si: H films deposited by RF magnetron sputtering at 95 C

D Girginoudi, C Tsiarapas, N Georgoulas - Applied Surface Science, 2011 - Elsevier
In this work we have investigated the dependence of optical and electrical properties of RF
sputtered undoped a-Si: H films and B or P doped a-Si: H films on hydrogen flow rate (FH) …