CN109763109B - Liquid metal target material and method for preparing alloy film by using same - Google Patents

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CN109763109B
CN109763109B CN201910161639.0A CN201910161639A CN109763109B CN 109763109 B CN109763109 B CN 109763109B CN 201910161639 A CN201910161639 A CN 201910161639A CN 109763109 B CN109763109 B CN 109763109B
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The invention relates to the field of sputtering film preparation, in particular to a liquid metal target and an alloy film prepared by the liquid metal target. The liquid metal target material has the advantages of simple preparation process, high alloy film growth speed when the liquid metal target material is used for preparing alloy, uniform and controllable thickness, simple operation, high efficiency and convenience, realization of an alloy film with continuously controllable thickness from a nanoscale to a microscale, higher conductivity and stronger production applicability.

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Liquid metal target material and method for preparing alloy film by using same
Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of preparation of alloy films, in particular to a liquid metal target material used in a film prepared by a magnetron sputtering method and an alloy film prepared by the liquid metal target material.
Background
Energy is a common concern in the world, and solar power generation becomes an important industry for solving the energy crisis. The CIGS thin-film solar cell is a chalcopyrite crystal thin-film solar cell consisting of four elements of Cu (copper), In (indium), Ga (gallium) and Se (selenium), has the advantages of strong light absorption capacity, good power generation stability, high conversion efficiency, long power generation time In the daytime, high power generation quantity, low production cost, short energy recovery period and the like, and is gradually and widely applied. The preparation of the CIGS light absorption layer is important for the manufacturing of CIGS thin film batteries, and the preparation methods of the CIGS thin film mainly comprise a solvothermal method, a spray pyrolysis method, an ion sintering method, a chemical deposition method, a reactive sputtering method, a vacuum evaporation method and the like. The selenization of a Copper Indium Gallium (CIG) alloy layer deposited by magnetron sputtering has become a mainstream preparation technology in the industry. The magnetron sputtering method of the copper indium gallium alloy layer generally includes the following two methods: the first is to adopt a mode of co-sputtering a CuGa binary alloy target and an In target, and the second is to directly sputter a CuInGa ternary alloy target. The method of smelting CuInGa or CuGa target material has narrow component and process window; the intermediate phase is easy to form and segregation occurs, so that the utilization rate of the sprayed powder is low (generally about 40-60%) in the finally formed alloy film uneven cold spraying method, only a rotary target material can be prepared, and the method is difficult to be used for producing a planar target material. The higher melting temperature (1084 ℃ higher than the melting point of copper) of the cold-pressing particle forming method can cause the indium or gallium with low melting point to be volatilized seriously, so that the alloy composition of the final particles is not matched with the designed composition; the IGZO film is prepared by adopting an indium gallium zinc oxide target magnetron sputtering method, the target preparation process is complex, the sputtering uniformity is poor, and the quality of the film layer is further influenced.
In addition, indium gallium zinc oxide IGZO is a novel semiconductor material having higher electron mobility than amorphous silicon (α -Si). IGZO is used in a new generation of high performance Thin Film Transistors (TFTs) as a channel material, thereby improving display panel resolution. The high-performance thin film transistor can be used on a display screen and can also replace a traditional monocrystalline silicon-based electronic chip. The preparation process has similar problems with magnetron sputtering CuInGa film.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the problems in the prior art in preparing alloy targets and magnetron sputtering alloy films, the invention firstly provides a liquid metal target which comprises a target substrate and a liquid metal target layer coated on the surface of the target substrate, wherein the liquid metal is gallium-based alloy or gallium, and the target substrate is copper or iron.
Compared with the traditional CuGa or CuGaIn target material, the liquid metal is uniformly distributed on the surface of the target material substrate in a liquid state, no intermediate phase is formed in the preparation process, the uniformity of the alloy film formed after final sputtering can be ensured, and the alloy component of the final particles is ensured to be matched with the designed component.
Preferably, the thickness of the liquid metal target material layer is 0.1-1.0 mm. The thickness can achieve uniform coverage of the liquid metal layer to the surface and ensure adhesion of the liquid metal to the target substrate surface.
Preferably, the gallium-based alloy is a gallium-indium alloy.
More preferably, the molar percentage of gallium in the gallium-indium alloy is 20 to 100%, and more preferably 40 to 60%.
Preferably, the content of impurities in the elementary indium and the elementary gallium is not more than 0.01 percent
Preferably, the liquid metal target material is prepared by the following method: and (3) placing the liquid metal and the target substrate in an acid solution for treatment, so that the liquid metal covers the surface of the target substrate.
Preferably, the pH value of the acidic solution is less than 2, and the acidic solution is treated for 1-10 min at the temperature of 20-100 ℃;
preferably, the pH value of the acid solution is 0-1, and the acid solution is treated for 1-5 min at the temperature of 40-80 ℃.
The invention also aims to protect the method for preparing the alloy film by utilizing the liquid metal target material, and the main improvement point is that the alloy film is prepared by taking the liquid metal target material and copper or zinc as raw materials through a co-sputtering method.
Preferably, the copper content in the copper target is more than 99.99%, and the zinc content in the zinc target is more than 99.99%.
Preferably, the method comprises the following steps: and (3) placing the liquid metal target and the copper target or placing the liquid metal target and the zinc target in physical vapor deposition coating equipment for coating by a co-sputtering method.
Preferably, the plating conditions of the liquid metal target are as follows: argon flow is 10-30 sccm, oxygen flow is 0 or 10-30 sccm, target base distance is 18-40mm, substrate temperature is 15-25 ℃, and sputtering power is 40-100W.
The plating conditions of the copper or zinc target are as follows: argon gas flow is 10-30 sccm, the target base distance is 18-40mm, the substrate temperature is 15-25 ℃, and the sputtering power is 40-100W.
Preferably, the solid substrate includes but is not limited to one or more of silicon wafer, glass, copper, molybdenum, PDMS;
further preferred is a silicon wafer, molybdenum or glass.
Preferably, the preparation method of the alloy film comprises the following steps:
1) coating a gallium-based liquid metal target material layer on the surface of copper or iron of the target material substrate to obtain a liquid metal target material;
2) and preparing an alloy film by using the liquid metal target material and the copper target material or the zinc target material as raw materials through a co-sputtering method.
The invention also protects the alloy film prepared by the method; a GaInZn film or a CuGaIn film is preferred.
Preferably, the GaInZn alloy film is sputtered in an oxygen atmosphere and is subjected to oxidation treatment, preferably at the temperature of 300-800 ℃, for 2-12 hours, so as to obtain the IGZO film.
A final object of the invention is to protect the use of said liquid metal alloy film in the preparation of solar cells;
preferably in the production of light-absorbing layers for solar cells.
The invention has the following beneficial effects:
1) compared with the prior art that the CuGa binary alloy target and the In target are co-sputtered or the CuInGa ternary alloy target is directly sputtered, the method disclosed by the invention has the advantages that the liquid metal is coated on the copper or iron target substrate, the liquid metal can be spread and wetted on the treated copper or iron substrate, the target with uniformly distributed liquid state can be obtained, no liquid and solid intermediate phase exists, and the uniformity of a sputtered film can be further ensured.
2) The liquid metal target material has the advantages of simple preparation process, high growth speed of the alloy film prepared by the target material, uniform and controllable thickness, simple operation, high efficiency and convenience, and can realize the alloy film with the continuously controllable thickness from the nanoscale to the microscale.
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FIG. 1 is a diagram of a liquid metal target according to example 1;
FIG. 2 is an SEM picture of a CuInGa alloy film of example 1;
FIG. 3 is a SEM image of a section of a GaInZn alloy film of example 2.
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The following examples are intended to illustrate the invention but are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.
Example 1
The embodiment first relates to a hydraulic metal target, which includes a target substrate and a gallium-indium alloy target layer covering the surface of the target substrate, wherein the target substrate is copper.
In the gallium-indium alloy, the molar ratio of simple substance indium to simple substance gallium is 50:50, the thickness of the target material layer is 0.8mm, and the impurity content of the simple substance indium and the simple substance gallium is not more than 0.01%;
the target material is prepared by the following method:
the copper target substrate and the liquid metal GaIn alloy are put into an acid solution with the pH value of 0, and a liquid metal GaIn alloy layer is prepared on the surface of the copper target at the temperature of 40 ℃ (see figure 1, the preparation time is 5min), and as can be seen from figure 1, the liquid metal alloy layer is uniformly covered on the copper substrate.
The invention also relates to a liquid metal film, and the preparation method comprises the following steps: and (3) taking a copper target with the copper content of more than 99.99% as a raw material, and putting the liquid metal target and the Cu target into PVD (physical vapor deposition) to carry out co-sputtering and plating of CuInGa on a silicon wafer (shown in an SEM (figure 2)). The PVD coating process comprises the following steps: the liquid metal target coating conditions are as follows: argon flow of 15sccm, oxygen flow of 0sccm, target base distance of 40mm, substrate temperature of 20 ℃ and sputtering power of 40W. The plating conditions of the copper target are as follows: argon gas flow of 30sccm, target base distance of 18mm, substrate temperature of 25 ℃ and sputtering power of 100W.
As can be seen from FIG. 2, the alloy film layer obtained by sputtering according to the method of the present invention has uniform and dense grain distribution.
Example 2
The embodiment first relates to a hydraulic metal target, which includes a target substrate and a gallium-indium alloy target layer covering the surface of the target substrate, wherein the target substrate is copper.
In the gallium-indium alloy, the molar ratio of simple substance indium to simple substance gallium is 40:60, and the thickness of the target material layer is 0.5 mm. The impurity content of the simple substance indium and the simple substance gallium is not more than 0.01 percent.
The target material is prepared by the following method:
and (3) putting the copper target substrate and the liquid metal GaIn alloy into an acid solution with the pH value of 1, and preparing a liquid metal GaIn alloy layer on the surface of the copper target at the temperature of 60 ℃ for 2 min.
The method comprises the steps of taking a material with the zinc content of more than 99.99% as a zinc target, putting a liquid metal target and a Zn target into PVD (physical vapor deposition) to carry out co-sputtering and coating of GaInZn on a silicon wafer substrate (an alloy section SEM is shown in figure 3). The PVD coating process comprises the following steps: the liquid metal target coating conditions are as follows: argon flow of 20sccm, oxygen flow of 30sccm, target base distance of 25mm, substrate temperature of 20 ℃ and sputtering power of 60W. The plating conditions of the zinc target are as follows: argon gas flow of 30sccm, oxygen gas flow of 30sccm, target base distance of 20mm, substrate temperature of 25 ℃, and sputtering power of 80W.
As can be seen from FIG. 3, the GaInZn coating prepared by the method of the invention is compact and has uniform thickness.
Although the invention has been described in detail hereinabove by way of general description, specific embodiments and experiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that many modifications and improvements can be made thereto based on the invention. Accordingly, such modifications and improvements are intended to be within the scope of the invention as claimed.

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1. A preparation method of a GaInZn alloy film or a CuGaIn alloy film is characterized by comprising the following steps: placing a metal target and a copper target or placing a liquid metal target and a zinc target in physical vapor deposition coating equipment for coating by a co-sputtering method;
the coating conditions of the liquid metal target material are as follows: argon gas flow is 10-30 sccm, oxygen flow is 0 or 10-30 sccm, target base distance is 18-40mm, substrate temperature is 15-25 ℃, and sputtering power is 40-100W;
the plating conditions of the copper or zinc target material are as follows: argon gas flow is 10-30 sccm, oxygen flow is 0 or 10-30 sccm, target base distance is 18-40mm, substrate temperature is 15-25 ℃, and sputtering power is 40-100W;
the liquid metal target comprises a target substrate and a liquid metal target layer covering the surface of the target substrate, the liquid metal is gallium-indium alloy, the molar percentage of gallium in the gallium-indium alloy is 40-60%, and the target substrate is copper or iron;
the liquid metal target is prepared by the following method: placing liquid metal and a target substrate in an acid solution for treatment, so that the liquid metal covers the surface of the target substrate;
the pH value of the acidic solution is 0-1, and the acidic solution is treated for 1-5 min at the temperature of 40-80 ℃.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of the liquid metal target layer is 0.1 to 1 mm.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the content of impurities in the elemental indium and gallium is not more than 0.01%.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the substrate comprises one or more of but not limited to silicon wafer, glass, copper, molybdenum, PDMS.
5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the substrate is a silicon wafer, molybdenum, or glass.
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