WO1999010933A1 - Thin film photoelectric transducer - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to improving the conversion efficiency of a thin-film photoelectric conversion device, and more particularly to improving the photoelectric conversion efficiency in a polycrystalline thin-film photoelectric layer.
- Important factors related to photoelectric materials for photoelectric conversion devices include the size of the effective wavelength sensitivity range, the magnitude of the light absorption coefficient, the magnitude of the carrier mobility, and the length of the minority carrier lifetime. All of these are important physical parameters for increasing the efficiency of the photoelectric conversion device, but the magnitude of the absorption coefficient is an important factor especially in a thin film photoelectric conversion device. That is, when the photoelectric conversion layer is a thin film, sufficient light absorption does not occur in a long wavelength region having a small absorption coefficient, and the amount of photoelectric conversion is limited by the thickness of the photoelectric conversion layer. Therefore, a thin film photoelectric conversion device having sensitivity to long wavelength light and having a high absorption coefficient is desired.
- an object of the present invention is to provide a thin-film photoelectric conversion device that can generate a large photocurrent by forming a light scattering structure in which light that has entered a photoelectric conversion layer is difficult to escape to the outside.
- a thin-film photoelectric conversion device includes a substantially polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer having first and second principal surfaces and a metal thin film covering the second principal surface;
- Conversion layer Comprises a polycrystalline silicon thin film and has an average thickness in the range of 0.5 to 20 m; at least a first principal surface of the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer has a surface texture structure, The texture structure is characterized by including fine irregularities having a height difference of less than 1 Z 2 of the average thickness of the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer and substantially in the range of 0.05 to 3 ⁇ m.
- the ⁇ 110> direction of many crystal grains included in the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer should be substantially parallel to the thickness direction of the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer within a shift angle of 15 degrees or less. Is preferred.
- the second principal surface of the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer also has a surface texture structure, and the texture structure is smaller than 1 Z2 of the thickness of the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer, and is substantially 0.05 to 0.5. It is preferable to include fine irregularities having a height difference within a range of 3 ⁇ m.
- the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer is preferably polycrystalline silicon having a volume crystallization fraction of 80% or more, and preferably has a hydrogen content of 0.1 atomic% or more and 30 atomic% or less.
- At least the surface facing the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer is selected from Ag, Au, Cu, A1, and Pt. Or an alloy containing the same.
- a buffer layer of a transparent conductive or translucent semiconductor having a thickness in the range of 0.05 to 0.15 / m is interposed between the metal thin film and the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer. Is preferred.
- the thin film photoelectric conversion device may further include an amorphous photoelectric conversion layer composed of a substantially amorphous silicon thin film deposited on the first main surface of the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer.
- FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view schematically showing a thin-film photoelectric conversion device according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a transmission electron micrograph showing the crystal structure of the cross section of the underlying conductive layer 2 in FIG.
- FIG. 3 is a graph showing the unevenness distribution in the surface texture structure of the underlying conductive layer as shown in FIG.
- FIG. 4 is a graph showing the optical absorption characteristics of the thin-film photoelectric conversion device as shown in FIG.
- FIG. 5 is a graph showing the external quantum efficiency of the thin-film photoelectric conversion device as shown in FIG.
- FIG. 6 is a graph for obtaining the effective optical length of the photoelectric conversion layer in the thin-film photoelectric conversion device as shown in FIG.
- FIG. 7 is a schematic sectional view of a thin-film photoelectric conversion device according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a transmission electron micrograph showing a thin film structure of a cross section of the thin film photoelectric conversion device as shown in FIG.
- FIG. 9 is a graph showing the effect of the buffer layer between the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer and the metal thin film on the spectral sensitivity in the thin-film photoelectric conversion device shown in FIG.
- FIG. 10 is a schematic sectional view showing a thin-film photoelectric conversion device according to still another embodiment of the present invention. BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
- FIG. 1 a thin-film photoelectric conversion device according to one embodiment of the present invention is schematically illustrated in a schematic cross-sectional view.
- This thin-film photoelectric conversion device includes a base conductive layer 2, a metal reflective layer 3, a polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer 4, and a transparent conductive layer 5 sequentially laminated on a glass substrate 1.
- an n + -type polycrystalline silicon layer doped with a high concentration of phosphorus can be deposited on the glass substrate 1 by using a thermal CVD method at a temperature of 500 ° C. or more. .
- a thermal CVD method at a temperature of 500 ° C. or more.
- the thermal CVD conditions temperature, pressure, reaction gas flow rate, etc.
- These irregularities can be formed, for example, with a height difference in the range of 0.05 to 3 ⁇ m.
- the metal reflection layer 3 can be formed by a sputtering method.
- the target can be formed by using RF (high frequency) discharge in Ar gas at a pressure of 0.1 to 5 OmTorr.
- RF high frequency
- As a target in addition to Ag, Au, Cu, A1, Pt, or an alloy containing at least one of them can also be used.
- the free surface 3S of the formed metal reflection layer 3 includes fine irregularities corresponding to the interface 2S with the underlying conductive layer 2.
- the substantially polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer 4 can be formed by a plasma CVD method.
- “substantially polycrystalline” means not only a complete polycrystal, but also a polycrystal containing a small amount of amorphous.
- the photoelectric conversion layer 4 can be formed of polycrystalline silicon having a volume crystallization fraction of 80% or more.
- the plasma CVD conditions for example, a pressure range of 0.01 to 5 Torr and a temperature range of 50 to 550 ° C. can be used.
- the n-type layer 4n can be formed by, for example, a plasma CVD method using a mixed gas containing phosphine, silane, and hydrogen.
- the i-type layer 4i which is a substantially intrinsic semiconductor, is deposited by a plasma CVD method using a mixed gas of silane gas and hydrogen containing no conductive impurities.
- the p-type semiconductor layer 4p is deposited by a plasma CVD method using a mixed gas containing diborane, silane, and hydrogen.
- the ⁇ 110> direction of many crystal grains contained in the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer 4 formed in this manner is such that the shift angle with respect to the thickness direction of the photoelectric conversion layer is within a range of about 15 degrees or less. They are almost parallel.
- the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer 4 is grown to an average thickness in the range of about 0.5-20 / m, and its free surface 4S has a surface texture structure including fine irregularities. These irregularities 4 S include V-shaped grooves or pyramids, and have a height difference of about 0.05 to 3 m within a range smaller than 12 of the average thickness of the photoelectric conversion layer 4.
- a transparent conductive oxide (TCO) layer 5 such as ITO (indium tin oxide) is further formed as a transparent electrode.
- Puls degree, pressure, gas flow rate, high-frequency power, etc. can be controlled, whereby the wavelength of light that is preferentially scattered in the photoelectric conversion layer 4 can be selected. That is, by preferentially scattering long-wavelength light in the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer 4, it is possible to increase the amount of light absorbed particularly for long-wavelength light.
- the light when light enters the solid medium from the air side, the light has a large scattering effect due to strong interaction with the surface uneven structure having a size close to the wavelength.
- a medium having a high refractive index n such as silicon
- the wavelength of the propagating light is 1 / n, so that light reaching the interface 3S or the uneven surface 4S from inside the photoelectric conversion layer 4 is strongly scattered there.
- the size of the ⁇ -convex to be confined again in the photoelectric conversion layer 4 is preferably in a range corresponding to a value obtained by multiplying the wavelength of light in air by 1 ⁇ . Therefore, the height difference between the interface 3S and the uneven surface 4S is more preferably in the range of 0.08 to 1 / zm.
- the thickness of the polycrystalline silicon thin film is, for example, 2 / m, of the incident light, the light that reaches the back surface of the silicon thin film and is confined by multiple reflection between the back surface and the front surface is approximately It has a wavelength of 500 nm or more.
- the wavelength of light that can be absorbed by silicon and substantially contribute to photoelectric conversion is up to about 1000 nm on the long wavelength side.
- the refractive index n of the silicon film is about 3.5 in the wavelength range of 500 to 1000 nm, the more preferable unevenness of the surface texture for enhancing light scattering is about the wavelength obtained by multiplying the wavelength by lZn. Most preferably, it is in the range of 75 to 175%, that is, in the range of 0.1 to 0.5 m.
- FIG. 2 is a transmission electron microscope (TEM) photograph showing the surface texture structure of F-doped S ⁇ 2 deposited on a glass substrate 1 at 500 ° C. by a normal pressure thermal CVD method.
- FIG. 2 the uneven surface 2S of the underlying conductive layer 2 can be clearly observed.
- FIG. 3 is a graph showing the results of measuring the distribution of irregularities in the surface texture structure of the underlying conductive layer 2 as shown in FIG. 2 using an AFM (atomic force microscope).
- the vertical axis represents the depth (nm) from the 0 level defined based on the most prominent point on the uneven surface
- the horizontal axis represents the freeness existing at that depth.
- FIG. 4 is a graph showing the optical absorption characteristics of the thin-film photoelectric conversion device as shown in FIG.
- the horizontal axis represents the wavelength of light (nm)
- the vertical axis represents the absorption characteristics (1-RT).
- R represents the diffuse reflectance of the photoelectric conversion device
- T represents the transmittance.
- Curve 4A represents the characteristics of a thin film photoelectric conversion device as shown in FIG. 1
- curve 4B represents a thin film photoelectric device similar to FIG. 1, but without the surface texture structure and the metal reflective layer 3. It shows the absorption characteristics of the converter.
- the thin-film photoelectric conversion device having the light confinement structure as shown in FIG. 1 causes significant light absorption in the near infrared region.
- FIG. 5 shows the external quantum efficiency of the thin-film photoelectric conversion device having the optical confinement structure as shown in FIG. That is, in FIG. 5, the horizontal axis represents the wavelength (nm) of light, and the vertical axis represents external quantum efficiency.
- Curve 5A represents the external quantum efficiency of a thin film photoelectric conversion device as shown in FIG. 1, and curve 5B has a structure similar to that of FIG. 1, but without the texture structure and the metal reflective film 3. It indicates the external quantum efficiency of the photoelectric conversion device.
- the thin-film photoelectric conversion device having the light confinement structure as shown in FIG. It has excellent external quantum efficiency over a wide wavelength range of 0 nm, and particularly has a high external quantum efficiency of about 50% for long wavelength light of 800 nm.
- FIG. 6 shows the measurement results of the optical characteristics of a photoelectric conversion device having a surface texture structure and including the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer 4 having a thickness of 3 / m.
- the horizontal axis represents the absorption length (nm), which is the reciprocal of the Si absorption coefficient
- the vertical axis represents the reciprocal of the internal quantum efficiency.
- the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer shown in this graph has an effective optical length of 260 Azm. That is, the effective optical length of this polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer has increased to 120 times its film thickness.
- the effective optical length is It is obtained as the reciprocal of the slope of the straight line obtained by linearly regressing the absorption length obtained from the absorption coefficient of the silicon single crystal and the reciprocal of the internal quantum efficiency in the wavelength range of 100 nm or more of the photoelectric converter.
- a polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer 4 having a thickness of 2 ⁇ m containing hydrogen of / 0 and a transparent electrode 5 composed of an 80 nm ITO layer were sequentially laminated. With the photoelectric conversion device formed in this way, a short circuit current of 28 mA, an open circuit voltage of 0.45 V, and a conversion efficiency of 9% were obtained.
- the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer 4 formed by the plasma CVD method has a range of 0.1 atomic% or more and 30 atomic% or less.
- an open-circuit voltage of 0.45 V or more is obtained, and when hydrogen in the range of 1 atomic% to 15 atomic% is included, an open-circuit voltage of 0.5 V or more is obtained. It is possible to get. This is considered to be because defects in the photoelectric conversion layer can be reduced by including the hydrogen atoms in the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer.
- the content of hydrogen atoms can be evaluated by secondary ion mass spectrometry.
- the thin-film photoelectric conversion device in FIG. 1 includes the underlying conductive layer 2, the underlying conductive layer 2 is not necessarily essential in the present invention. That is, if the Ag layer 3 is deposited relatively thick (about 300 nm to 500 nm) directly on the glass substrate 1, the surface of the Ag layer 3 can be finely formed without the underlayer 2. A surface texture including irregularities can be formed.
- Such an Ag layer can be formed by vacuum deposition at a substrate temperature of 200 to 300 ° C., for example.
- Such a Ti layer can be formed by sputtering or vapor deposition.
- FIG. 7 illustrates a thin-film photoelectric conversion device according to still another embodiment of the present invention in a schematic cross-sectional view.
- the photoelectric conversion device of FIG. 7 is similar to that of FIG. 1, but a buffer layer 3 a made of a transparent conductive layer is inserted between the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer 4 and the metal reflection layer 3.
- This buffer layer 3a acts to reduce carrier recombination, Further, it works so as to enhance the effect of confining the reflected light from the metal layer 3 in the photoelectric conversion layer 4.
- At least one of the transparent conductive materials ZnO, In2O3, S ⁇ 2 and CdO, or the translucent semiconductor material Fe2O3, Ti0, Zn At least one of Se and ZnS can be used.
- a thin-film photoelectric conversion device having the structure shown in FIG. 7 was created by sequentially laminating the transparent electrodes 5 each composed of an ITO layer of nm. With this photoelectric conversion device, a short-circuit current of 3 OmA, an open-circuit voltage of 0.49 V, and a conversion efficiency of 11% were obtained.
- FIG. 8 shows an example of a TEM photograph of the thin-film photoelectric conversion device as shown in FIG. 7, in which the lower white line represents the length of 200 nm.
- the TEM photograph of FIG. 8 not only a surface texture structure including fine irregularities but also columnar crystals extending in the 110> direction in the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer 4 can be observed.
- the ⁇ 110> directions of these columnar crystals are substantially parallel to the thickness direction of the photoelectric conversion layer within a deviation angle of about 15 degrees or less.
- FIG. 9 is a graph showing the effect of the thickness of the ZnO buffer layer 3a on the spectral sensitivity spectrum in the thin-film photoelectric conversion device as shown in FIG.
- the horizontal axis represents light wavelength (nm)
- the vertical axis represents spectral sensitivity (A / W).
- W in this spectral sensitivity represents the energy of the incident light in pets
- A represents the amount of current output from the photoelectric conversion device in amps.
- Ti was used for the underlying conductive layer 2.
- Curves 9A, 9B, and 9C correspond to a photoelectric conversion device including a buffer layer 3a of ZnO having a thickness of 80 nm, 1000 nm, and 0 nm, respectively.
- the photoelectric conversion device including the buffer layer 3a with a thickness of 80 nm having a thickness of 80 nm is compared with the photoelectric conversion device not including such a buffer layer. It can be seen that the spectral sensitivity is significantly increased. As can be seen from the comparison of curves 9A and 9B, when the thickness of the ZnO buffer layer 3a is increased to 1000 nm, the thickness of the Z ⁇ buffer layer having a thickness of 80 nm is increased. Conversely, the spectral sensitivity is lower than in the case. From such a study, the thickness of the buffer layer 3a is 0.005 It is preferably in the range of ⁇ 0.15 ⁇ m.
- FIG. 10 schematically illustrates a thin-film photoelectric conversion device according to still another embodiment of the present invention in a schematic cross-sectional view.
- the photoelectric conversion device of FIG. 10 is similar to that of FIG. 7, except that an amorphous photoelectric conversion layer 6 is inserted between the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer 4 and the transparent electrode layer 5. That is, the thin-film photoelectric conversion device in FIG. 10 is a tandem-type thin-film photoelectric conversion device in which the amorphous photoelectric conversion layer 6 is stacked on the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer 4.
- the amorphous photoelectric conversion layer 6 includes an n-type amorphous silicon layer 6 n, a substantially intrinsic amorphous silicon layer 61, and a p-type amorphous silicon layer 6 p.
- a tandem thin film photoelectric conversion device including a polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer 4 having a thickness of 2 / zm 4; an amorphous photoelectric conversion layer 6 having a thickness of 0.4 / m 6 and a transparent electrode 5 having an ITO layer having a thickness of 80 nm is provided.
- a polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer 4 having a thickness of 2 / zm 4
- an amorphous photoelectric conversion layer 6 having a thickness of 0.4 / m 6
- a transparent electrode 5 having an ITO layer having a thickness of 80 nm
- This tandem photoelectric converter had a short-circuit current of 13.5 mA, an open discharge voltage of 1.4 V, and a conversion efficiency of 13.5%. That is, compared with the thin-film photoelectric conversion device of FIG. 7, the tandem-type thin-film photoelectric conversion device of FIG. 10 can reduce the short-circuit current, but can obtain a high open-circuit voltage. Since the light can be efficiently absorbed and long-wavelength light can be absorbed by the polycrystalline photoelectric conversion layer 4, it can be seen that the photoelectric conversion efficiency is also significantly improved. Industrial applicability
- the present invention it is possible to provide a thin-film photoelectric conversion device having an improved light absorption coefficient, particularly, a light absorption coefficient in a long wavelength region. A high open-circuit voltage and a high photoelectric conversion efficiency can be obtained.
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