The preparation method of aluminum-induced crystallized polycrystalline silicon film in a kind of hydrogen plasma atmosphere
[technical field]
The invention belongs to the technology of preparing of polycrystalline silicon film material, the preparation method of aluminum-induced crystallized polycrystalline silicon film in particularly a kind of hydrogen plasma atmosphere.
[background technology]
Polysilicon membrane, has lower cost with respect to silicon single crystal, have higher mobility and stability with respect to amorphous silicon membrane, it is just attracting the very big concern of scientific circles in the large area electron device wide application prospect in solar cell, thin film transistor, the transmitter particularly.Regrettably, the technology of preparing of polysilicon membrane all has its limitation separately at present: thus the film of the method that has preparation is because grain-size is less or the relatively poor electric property of homogeneity is not good enough, as plasma reinforced chemical vapour deposition (Plasma Enhanced ChemicalVapor Deposition---the PECVD) microcrystalline silicon film of low temperature preparation, its grain-size and mobility can not show a candle to the silicon film of polycrystalline structure; Other, as low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (Low Pressure ChemicalVapor Deposition---LPCVD), (Atmospheric PressureChemical Vapor Deposition---APCVD), solid phase crystallization (Solid PhaseCrystallization---SPC) etc. needs higher crystallization temperature to aumospheric pressure cvd; Excimer laser crystallization (Excimer Laser Annealing ELA) for another example, and rapid thermal annealing (Rapid Thermal Annealing---RTA) wait then apparatus expensive.The metal-induced crystallization technology is to utilize combining of non-crystalline silicon and some metal (as Ni, Al, Cu etc.), thereby reduce its crystallization temperature and can realize the low temperature preparation, it has that technology is simple, cost is low and characteristics such as annealing process is short, makes it be more suitable for being applied to industrial production.Wherein, aluminum-induced crystallized can not only be at low temperature (below 600 degrees centigrade) complete crystallization amorphous silicon membrane, and the polysilicon of preparation also has the advantage of big crystal grain and 100 preferred orientations, suitable to especially inculating crystal layer low-temperature epitaxy growth polysilicon, this technology is widely used in polysilicon solar cell.Regrettably, even aluminum-induced crystallized annealing still needs long annealing time, be unfavorable for the industrialization of polysilicon solar cell and polycrystalline SiTFT substrate under lower temperature.In addition, the crystal boundary of the polysilicon membrane after crystallization and crystal grain inside are contained higher defect state usually, have a strong impact on the performance and the stability of polysilicon membrane and device.Then hydrogen treatment is one of effective ways of passivation polysilicon film device defect state, and method commonly used is that polysilicon membrane is annealed under the atmosphere of hydrogen plasma.
[summary of the invention]
The objective of the invention is at above-mentioned existing problems, the preparation method of aluminum-induced crystallized polycrystalline silicon film in a kind of hydrogen plasma atmosphere is provided, this method utilizes plasma body to reduce aluminum-induced crystallized temperature, shorten the time of realizing the complete crystallization process, realize aluminum-induced crystallized annealing and post-passivation synchronously, improve the aluminum-induced crystallized polycrystalline silicon film quality, reduce the energy waste and the cost of preparation process, for a new road is opened up in the preparation of polysilicon membrane.
Technical scheme of the present invention:
The preparation method of aluminum-induced crystallized polycrystalline silicon film in a kind of hydrogen plasma atmosphere, step is as follows:
1) deposition comprises that amorphous silicon membrane, silica membrane and metallic aluminium film make multilayer film on substrate;
2) above-mentioned multilayer film are put into annealing furnace, annealing furnace is vacuumized and annealing furnace is warming up to annealing temperature;
3) feed hydrogen and produce hydrogen plasma, multilayer film are exposed in the hydrogen plasma atmosphere by the hydrogen plasma generation source that is arranged in the annealing furnace;
4) under annealing furnace homo(io)thermism condition, anneal;
5) close hydrogen gas plasma the source takes place, stop logical hydrogen, secondary vacuum pumping is treated to take out from annealing furnace after the nature cooling, can make the polycrystalline silicon film material of complete crystallization.
Vacuum tightness in the described annealing furnace is (200~800) * 10
-3Torr.
Described annealing temperature is 450 ℃~550 ℃.
Described hydrogen plasma generation source is radio frequency glow discharge, ultra-high frequency glow discharge, microwave-excitation, heat is auxiliary or the short range or the long-range hydrogen plasma source of the generation of heated filament decomposition method.
Described hydrogen flowing quantity is 15sccm~60sccm.
Described annealing time is for being no less than 2 hours.
Advantage of the present invention and effect: the present invention carries out aluminum-induced crystallized annealing process in the atmosphere of hydrogen plasma, and traditional annealing and back hydrogenation process are united two into one, and has simplified technology, has reduced cost; In annealing process, hydrogen atom in the hydrogen plasma can be in the annealing time shorter than the conventional aluminum revulsive crystallization crystallizing amorphous silicon film, utilize hydrogen plasma atmosphere to quicken aluminum-induced crystallized annealing process, can reduce aluminum-induced crystallized annealing time effectively; The present invention is by the polycrystalline silicon film material of the aluminum-induced crystallized preparation of hydrogen plasma atmosphere, can be used for preparing the devices such as low-temperature polysilicon film transistor in polysilicon thin-film solar battery, the flat-panel display device, having characteristics such as work simplification, heat budget is few, cost is low, is a kind of crystallization method that is applicable to the polycrystalline silicon film material of large-scale commercial production.
[description of drawings]
Fig. 1 a prepares amorphous silicon membrane, silica membrane and aluminium film three-decker film schematic cross-section successively on the substrate.
Fig. 1 b prepares aluminium film, silica membrane and amorphous silicon membrane three-decker film schematic cross-section successively on the substrate.
Fig. 2 is thin 550 ℃ of annealing times of the aluminum-induced crystallized polycrystalline silicon of embodiment 1 preparation and silicon film crystallization rate corresponding relation figure.
Fig. 3 is thin 550 ℃ of annealing times of the aluminum-induced crystallized polycrystalline silicon of embodiment 2 preparations and silicon film crystallization rate corresponding relation figure.Among the figure: 1. substrate 2. amorphous silicon membranes 3. silica membranes 4. aluminium films
[embodiment]
Embodiment 1:
The preparation method of aluminum-induced crystallized polycrystalline silicon film in a kind of hydrogen plasma atmosphere, step is as follows:
1) on large-area glass substrate 1, adopt the method for low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD), at 550 ℃ of amorphous silicon membrane layers 2 that deposit 100nm is thick, from the preparation chamber, take out amorphous silicon membrane, natural oxidation in air, the silica membrane 3 that its surface forms a layer thickness 3nm adopts the method for vacuum-evaporation to form the thick aluminium film 4 of 100nm then on amorphous silicon layer, and its structure as shown in Figure 1a;
2) above-mentioned multilayer film are put into annealing furnace, annealing furnace adopts radio frequency glow discharge short range hydrogen plasma equipment, and annealing furnace is evacuated to 100 * 10
-6Below the torr, annealing furnace is warming up to 550 degrees centigrade;
3) feed hydrogen, flow is 30sccm, and chamber vacuum is adjusted into 800 * 10
-3Torr opens radio frequency (RF) power supply, and power setting is 30W, and substrate/amorphous silicon/silicon dioxide/aluminium multilayer film will be exposed in the plasma body this moment;
4) under annealing furnace homo(io)thermism condition, annealed 4 hours;
5) close hydrogen gas plasma the source takes place, stop logical hydrogen, be evacuated to 100 * 10
-6Below the torr, treat from annealing furnace, to take out after the nature cooling, can make the polycrystalline silicon film material of complete crystallization.
Technique effect detects: with the above-mentioned polycrystalline silicon film material that makes with 85% phosphoric acid dip 10 minutes, clean up at the residual aluminium of silicon film surface, with model be Raman (Raman) spectrograph of Renishaw in Via record film the Raman spectrogram through 520,510,480 3 these matches of peak height, with formula Xc=(I
520+ I
510)/(I
520+ I
510+ I
480) calculating the silicon film crystallization rate, the 4 hours crystallization rates that obtain annealing under hydrogen plasma atmosphere are 100%, promptly make the polysilicon membrane of complete crystallization.The corresponding relation figure of shown in Figure 2 is substrate/amorphous silicon/silicon dioxide/aluminium multilayer film annealing time and crystallization rate under hydrogen plasma atmosphere and under the vacuum, compare with the polysilicon membrane of the ability acquisition in 10 hours of annealing under vacuum condition complete crystallization, show that this method can reduce aluminum-induced crystallized annealing time, reduce heat budget.
Embodiment 2:
The preparation method of aluminum-induced crystallized polycrystalline silicon film in a kind of hydrogen plasma atmosphere, step is as follows:
1) on large-area glass substrate 1, adopt the method for vacuum-evaporation on amorphous silicon layer, to form the thick aluminum film layer of 100nm 4, the thick silica membrane layer 3 of method deposition 10nm of using plasma chemical vapour deposition (PECVD), adopt the method for low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) again, at 550 ℃ of amorphous silicon membrane layers 2 that deposit 100nm is thick, its structure is shown in Fig. 1 b;
2) above-mentioned multilayer film are put into annealing furnace, annealing furnace adopts radio frequency glow discharge short range hydrogen plasma equipment, and annealing furnace is evacuated to 100 * 10
-6Below the torr, annealing furnace is warming up to 450 degrees centigrade;
3) feed hydrogen, flow is 15sccm, and cavity air pressure is adjusted into 200 * 10
-3Torr opens radio frequency (RF) power supply, and power setting is 10W, and substrate/aluminium/silicon-dioxide/non-crystalline silicon multilayer film will be exposed in the plasma body this moment;
4) under annealing furnace homo(io)thermism condition, annealed 5 hours;
5) close hydrogen gas plasma the source takes place, stop logical hydrogen, be evacuated to 100 * 10
-6Below the torr, treat from annealing furnace, to take out after the nature cooling, can make the polycrystalline silicon film material of complete crystallization.
Technique effect detects: the phosphoric acid dip with 85% 10 minutes, clean up at the residual aluminium of silicon film surface, with model be Raman (Raman) spectrograph of Renishaw in Via record film the Raman spectrogram through 520,510,480 3 these matches of peak height, with formula Xc=(I
520+ I
510)/(I
520+ I
510+ I
480) calculating the silicon film crystallization rate, the 5 hours crystallization rates that obtain annealing under hydrogen plasma atmosphere are 100%, promptly make the polysilicon membrane of complete crystallization.The corresponding relation figure of shown in Figure 2 is substrate/aluminium/silicon-dioxide/non-crystalline silicon multilayer film annealing time and crystallization rate under hydrogen plasma atmosphere and under the vacuum, compare with the polysilicon membrane of the ability acquisition in 13 hours of annealing under vacuum condition complete crystallization, show that this method can reduce aluminum-induced crystallized annealing time, reduce heat budget.