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- the present invention relates to a photoelectric conversion device containing a I-III-VI group compound.
- I-III-VI group compounds such as CIGS having a high light absorption coefficient as a light absorption layer.
- CIGS having a high light absorption coefficient
- Such a photoelectric conversion device is described in, for example, JP-A-8-330614.
- I-III-VI group compounds have a high light absorption coefficient, and are suitable for thinning, increasing the area and reducing the cost of photoelectric conversion devices, and research and development of next-generation solar cells using them are being promoted.
- a lower electrode layer such as a metal electrode, a light absorption layer, a buffer layer, and a transparent conductive film are laminated in this order on a substrate such as glass.
- a plurality of photoelectric conversion cells are arranged side by side in a plan view. The plurality of photoelectric conversion cells are electrically connected in series by connecting the transparent conductive film of one adjacent photoelectric conversion cell and the other lower electrode layer with a connection conductor.
- This photoelectric conversion efficiency indicates the rate at which sunlight energy is converted into electric energy in the photoelectric conversion device.
- the value of the electric energy output from the photoelectric conversion device is the amount of sunlight incident on the photoelectric conversion device. It is derived by dividing by the value of energy and multiplying by 100.
- One object of the present invention is to improve the photoelectric conversion efficiency of a photoelectric conversion device.
- a photoelectric conversion device includes an electrode layer, a first semiconductor layer including an I-III-VI group compound disposed on the electrode layer, and a first semiconductor layer.
- the semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer that forms a pn junction.
- the first semiconductor layer contains oxygen as well as at least one of sulfur, selenium, and tellurium as a VI-B group element.
- the atomic concentration of oxygen in the first semiconductor layer is lower in the surface portion on the electrode layer side than in the central portion in the thickness direction of the first semiconductor layer.
- the photoelectric conversion efficiency in the photoelectric conversion device is improved.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of a photoelectric conversion device according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 2 is an XZ sectional view thereof.
- 1 and 2 are provided with a right-handed XYZ coordinate system in which the arrangement direction of photoelectric conversion cells 10 (the horizontal direction in the drawing in FIG. 1) is the X-axis direction.
- the photoelectric conversion device 11 a plurality of photoelectric conversion cells 10 are arranged on the substrate 1 and are electrically connected to each other. In FIG. 1, only two photoelectric conversion cells 10 are shown for convenience of illustration.
- the horizontal direction in the drawing (X-axis direction) or a direction perpendicular to this (A large number of photoelectric conversion cells 10 may be arranged in a plane (two-dimensionally) in the Y-axis direction).
- a plurality of lower electrode layers 2 are arranged in a plane on a substrate 1.
- the plurality of lower electrode layers 2 include lower electrode layers 2a to 2c arranged at intervals in one direction (X-axis direction).
- a first semiconductor layer 3 is provided from the lower electrode layer 2a through the substrate 1 to the lower electrode layer 2b.
- a second semiconductor layer 4 having a conductivity type different from that of the first semiconductor layer 3 is provided on the first semiconductor layer 3.
- the connection conductor 7 is provided along the surface (side surface) of the first semiconductor layer 3 or penetrating (dividing) the first semiconductor layer 3. The connection conductor 7 electrically connects the second semiconductor layer 4 and the lower electrode layer 2b.
- the lower electrode layer 2, the first semiconductor layer 3, the second semiconductor layer 4, and the upper electrode layer 5 constitute one photoelectric conversion cell 10, and adjacent photoelectric conversion cells 10 are connected in series via the connection conductor 7. By being connected, a high output photoelectric conversion device 11 is obtained.
- the photoelectric conversion apparatus 11 in this embodiment assumes what enters light from the 2nd semiconductor layer 4 side, it is not limited to this, Light enters from the board
- the substrate 1 is for supporting the photoelectric conversion cell 10.
- Examples of the material used for the substrate 1 include glass, ceramics, resin, and metal.
- the lower electrode layer 2 (lower electrode layers 2a, 2b, 2c) is a conductor such as Mo, Al, Ti, or Au provided on the substrate 1.
- the lower electrode layer 2 is formed to a thickness of about 0.2 ⁇ m to 1 ⁇ m using a known thin film forming method such as sputtering or vapor deposition.
- the first semiconductor layer 3 has a thickness of about 1 ⁇ m to 3 ⁇ m, for example, and mainly contains an I-III-VI group compound.
- the I-III-VI group compound is a compound of a group IB element (also referred to as a group 11 element), a group III-B element (also referred to as a group 13 element), and a chalcogen element.
- the chalcogen element means S, Se, or Te among the VI-B group elements.
- the I-III-VI group compound examples include CuInSe 2 (also called copper indium diselenide, CIS), Cu (In, Ga) Se 2 (also called copper indium diselenide / gallium, CIGS), Cu ( In, Ga) (Se, S) 2 (also referred to as diselene / copper indium / gallium / CIGSS).
- the first semiconductor layer 3 may be composed of a multi-component compound semiconductor thin film such as copper indium selenide / gallium having a thin film of selenite / copper indium sulfide / gallium as a surface layer.
- the first semiconductor layer 3 further contains an oxygen element, and the atomic concentration of the oxygen element is closer to the lower electrode layer 2 side than the central portion in the thickness direction (Z-axis direction) of the first semiconductor layer 3. It is lower on the surface.
- the photoelectric conversion efficiency of the photoelectric conversion device 11 is increased. That is, when the first semiconductor layer 3 contains an oxygen element, defects in the first semiconductor layer 3 are filled with the oxygen element, so that recombination of carriers can be reduced well, and the first semiconductor layer 3 Since the oxygen concentration is low in the surface portion on the lower electrode layer 2 side, it is possible to effectively suppress the formation of a high-resistance heterogeneous phase due to oxidation of the lower electrode layer 2.
- the oxygen concentration is low at the surface portion of the first semiconductor layer 3 on the lower electrode layer 2 side, the energy position of the valence band of the first semiconductor layer 3 is negative in the vicinity of the lower electrode layer 2. It can also be shifted to the potential side. As a result, the movement of holes from the first semiconductor layer 3 to the lower electrode layer 2 can be improved.
- the first semiconductor layer 3 is divided into at least three equal parts in the thickness direction (Z-axis direction), and the surface portion and the central portion on the lower electrode layer 2 side and the second semiconductor layer 4 side.
- the atomic concentration of the oxygen element in the surface portion on the lower electrode layer 2 side should be lower than the atomic concentration of the oxygen element in the central portion.
- the atomic concentration of the oxygen element can be obtained by measuring the oxygen concentration using, for example, energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDS) in the cross section of each of the three layers. Or you may measure using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS: Secondary
- EDS energy dispersive X-ray analysis
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- the atomic concentration of the oxygen element in the central portion of the first semiconductor layer 3 may be, for example, 1 ⁇ 10 20 to 1 ⁇ 10 22 atoms / cm 3 , more preferably It may be 2 ⁇ 10 20 to 3 ⁇ 10 21 atoms / cm 3 . Further, the atomic concentration of the oxygen element in the surface portion on the lower electrode layer 2 side may be 0.1 to 0.9 times the atomic concentration of the oxygen element in the central portion, more preferably 0.1 to 0.00. It may be 5 times.
- FIG. 3 shows an example of an atomic concentration distribution of oxygen elements in the thickness direction of the first semiconductor layer 3.
- the distribution of the atomic concentration of the oxygen element is measured using SIMS while the first semiconductor layer 3 is cut in the depth direction by sputtering, and the horizontal axis indicates the distance from the lower electrode layer 2.
- the vertical axis indicates the atomic concentration of oxygen element.
- the atomic concentration ratio of the gallium element to the sum of the indium element and the gallium element (M Ga / (M Ga + M In ))
- M Ga / (M Ga + M In ) the atomic concentration ratio of the gallium element to the sum of the indium element and the gallium element
- FIG. 4 shows an example of the distribution of the atomic concentration ratio of the gallium element with respect to the sum of the indium element and the gallium element in the thickness direction of the first semiconductor layer 3.
- the horizontal axis indicates the distance from the lower electrode layer 2
- the vertical axis indicates M Ga / (M Ga + M In ).
- the first semiconductor layer 3 having such an atomic concentration ratio (M Ga / (M Ga + M In )) different in the thickness direction is formed by laminating a film using a raw material in which the concentration ratio of the indium element and the gallium element is changed. Can be produced.
- the second semiconductor layer 4 is a semiconductor layer having a second conductivity type different from that of the first semiconductor layer 3.
- a photoelectric conversion layer from which charges can be favorably extracted is formed.
- the first semiconductor layer 3 is p-type
- the second semiconductor layer 4 is n-type.
- the first semiconductor layer 3 may be n-type and the second semiconductor layer 4 may be p-type.
- the second semiconductor layer 4 may be composed of a plurality of layers, and at least one of the plurality of layers may be a high resistance layer.
- the second semiconductor layer 4 includes CdS, ZnS, ZnO, In 2 S 3 , In 2 Se 3 , In (OH, S), (Zn, In) (Se, OH), and (Zn, Mg) O. Etc.
- the second semiconductor layer 4 is formed with a thickness of 10 to 200 nm by, for example, a chemical bath deposition (CBD) method or the like.
- CBD chemical bath deposition
- In (OH, S) refers to a mixed crystal compound containing In as a hydroxide and a sulfide.
- Zn, In) (Se, OH) refers to a mixed crystal compound containing Zn and In as selenides and hydroxides.
- (Zn, Mg) O refers to a compound containing Zn and Mg as oxides.
- an upper electrode layer 5 may be further provided on the second semiconductor layer 4.
- the upper electrode layer 5 is a layer having a lower resistivity than the second semiconductor layer 4, and the charges generated in the first semiconductor layer 3 and the second semiconductor layer 4 can be taken out satisfactorily.
- the resistivity of the upper electrode layer 5 may be less than 1 ⁇ ⁇ cm and the sheet resistance may be 50 ⁇ / ⁇ or less.
- the upper electrode layer 5 is a 0.05 to 3 ⁇ m transparent conductive film made of, for example, ITO or ZnO.
- the upper electrode layer 5 may be composed of a semiconductor having the same conductivity type as the second semiconductor layer 4.
- the upper electrode layer 5 can be formed by sputtering, vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), or the like.
- a collecting electrode 8 may be further formed on the upper electrode layer 5.
- the current collecting electrode 8 is for taking out charges generated in the first semiconductor layer 3 and the second semiconductor layer 4 more satisfactorily.
- the collector electrode 8 is formed in a linear shape from one end of the photoelectric conversion cell 10 to the connection conductor 7.
- the current generated in the first semiconductor layer 3 and the fourth semiconductor layer 4 is collected to the current collecting electrode 8 via the upper electrode layer 5, and to the adjacent photoelectric conversion cell 10 via the connection conductor 7. It is energized well.
- the collecting electrode 8 may have a width of 50 to 400 ⁇ m from the viewpoint of increasing the light transmittance to the first semiconductor layer 3 and having good conductivity.
- the current collecting electrode 8 may have a plurality of branched portions.
- the current collecting electrode 8 is formed, for example, by printing a metal paste in which a metal powder such as Ag is dispersed in a resin binder or the like in a pattern and curing it.
- connection conductor 7 is a conductor provided in a groove that penetrates (divides) the first semiconductor layer 3, the second semiconductor layer 4, and the second electrode layer 5.
- the connection conductor 7 can be made of metal, conductive paste, or the like.
- the collector electrode 8 is extended to form the connection conductor 7, but the present invention is not limited to this.
- the upper electrode layer 5 may be stretched.
- the photoelectric conversion device 11 having the above configuration will be described.
- the first semiconductor layer 3 is CIGS will be described.
- the lower electrode layer 2 made of Mo or the like is formed in a desired pattern on the main surface of the substrate 1 made of glass or the like using a sputtering method or the like.
- a raw material solution in which metal elements (Cu, In and Ga) constituting the I-III-VI group compound (CIGS) are dissolved in an organic complex or an organic acid salt in a solvent is prepared.
- a first film is formed by film formation using a coating method or the like. Then, the first film is heated in an atmosphere containing water or oxygen, for example, at 150 to 350 ° C. to thermally decompose the organic components in the first film. During the thermal decomposition, a part of the metal element in the first film is oxidized (hereinafter, the process of forming the first film and thermally decomposing the organic component is referred to as the first process).
- a second film is formed on the thermally decomposed first film using the raw material solution. Then, the second film is heated in an atmosphere containing water or oxygen having a higher concentration than in the first step to thermally decompose the organic component in the second film. As a result, the oxygen concentration of the second film becomes higher than that of the first film.
- a third film is formed on the thermally decomposed second film using the raw material solution. And this 3rd membrane
- coat is heated in the atmosphere containing water or oxygen, and the organic component in a 3rd membrane
- a three-layered film stack having a lower oxygen concentration on the lower electrode layer 2 side than the central portion in the thickness direction is formed.
- the coating is not limited to three layers, and may be two layers or four or more layers.
- the oxygen concentration of each layer can be adjusted by changing the concentration of water or oxygen in the atmosphere during pyrolysis.
- the laminate of this film is heated at, for example, 500 to 600 ° C. in an atmosphere containing a chalcogen element.
- CIGS I-III-VI group compound
- the second film having a high oxygen concentration tends to produce CIGS having a higher oxygen concentration than the first film.
- the first semiconductor layer 3 containing CIGS and oxygen and having a lower atomic concentration of oxygen in the surface portion on the lower electrode layer 2 side than the central portion in the thickness direction is generated.
- the second semiconductor layer 4 and the upper electrode layer 5 are sequentially formed on the first semiconductor layer 3 by a CBD method, a sputtering method, or the like. Then, the first semiconductor layer 3, the second semiconductor layer 4, and the upper electrode layer 5 are processed by mechanical scribing or the like to form a groove for the connection conductor 7.
- the first semiconductor layer 3 to the collector electrode 8 are removed by mechanical scribing at a position shifted from the connection conductor 7 and divided into a plurality of photoelectric conversion cells 10, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
- the photoelectric conversion device 11 can be obtained.
- a raw material solution for forming the first semiconductor layer 3 was produced.
- a solution obtained by dissolving a single source precursor prepared in accordance with US Pat. No. 6,992,202 in pyridine was used.
- this single source precursor Cu, In, and phenyl selenol formed one complex molecule, and Cu, Ga, and phenyl selenol formed one complex molecule.
- a single source precursor Cu, In, and phenyl selenol formed one complex molecule
- Cu, Ga, and phenyl selenol formed one complex molecule.
- a substrate 1 made of glass with a lower electrode layer 2 made of Mo is prepared, and a raw material solution is applied onto the lower electrode layer 2 by a blade method to form a first electrode.
- a film was formed.
- this first film was heated at 280 ° C. for 10 minutes in an atmosphere containing 140 ppmv of water (water vapor) in nitrogen gas in a partial pressure ratio to thermally decompose the organic components contained in the first film.
- the raw material solution was applied on the thermally decomposed first film by a blade method to form a second film.
- the second film was heated at 280 ° C. for 10 minutes in an atmosphere containing 200 ppmv of water (water vapor) in nitrogen gas in a partial pressure ratio to thermally decompose the organic components contained in the second film.
- the raw material solution was applied on the thermally decomposed second film by a blade method to form a third film.
- this third film was heated at 280 ° C. for 10 minutes in an atmosphere containing 200 ppmv of water (water vapor) in nitrogen gas in a partial pressure ratio to thermally decompose the organic components contained in the third film.
- the laminate of the first film, the second film, and the third film is heated at 550 ° C. for 1 hour in an atmosphere containing selenium vapor in a partial pressure ratio of 60 ppmv in hydrogen gas, and mainly contains CIGS.
- the first semiconductor layer 3 having a thickness of 2 ⁇ m was formed.
- the substrate on which the layers up to the first semiconductor layer 3 are formed is immersed in an aqueous solution in which indium chloride and thioacetamide are dissolved, so that an In 2 S having a thickness of 50 nm is formed on the first semiconductor layer 3.
- a second semiconductor layer 4 including 3 was formed.
- the upper electrode layer 5 made of AZO was formed on the second semiconductor layer 4 by a sputtering method to obtain a photoelectric conversion device 11 as an evaluation sample.
- the distribution of the oxygen element in the first semiconductor layer 3 was measured by performing SIMS measurement while etching the first semiconductor layer 3 of the evaluation sample thus fabricated in the thickness direction. The result is shown in FIG. From this, it was found that the oxygen concentration in the surface portion on the lower electrode layer 2 side was lower than the central portion in the thickness direction of the first semiconductor layer 3.
- a comparative sample was produced.
- the comparative sample was manufactured in the same manner as the evaluation sample except that the first semiconductor layer was manufactured.
- the first to third coatings were thermally decomposed under the same conditions for each layer in an atmosphere not containing water. That is, in each thermal decomposition step of the first film to the third film, each film was heated in a nitrogen gas atmosphere at 280 ° C. for 10 minutes to thermally decompose organic components contained in each film.
- the SIMS measurement was performed while etching the first semiconductor layer of the comparative sample produced in this way in the thickness direction, thereby measuring the distribution of oxygen element in the first semiconductor layer.
- the comparative sample contained only a trace amount of oxygen element, and no difference in concentration in the thickness direction of the first semiconductor layer was observed.
- the photoelectric conversion efficiency of the thus prepared evaluation sample and comparative sample was measured as follows. Using a so-called steady light solar simulator, the photoelectric conversion efficiency was measured under the conditions where the light irradiation intensity on the light receiving surface of the photoelectric conversion device was 100 mW / cm 2 and AM (air mass) was 1.5. As a result, the photoelectric conversion efficiency of the comparative sample was 10.0%, whereas the photoelectric conversion efficiency of the evaluation sample was 12.8%, which was higher than that of the comparative sample.
- first semiconductor layer 4 second semiconductor layer 7: connection conductor 10: photoelectric conversion cell 11: photoelectric conversion device
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図1は、本発明の一実施形態に係る光電変換装置の一例を示す斜視図であり、図2はそのXZ断面図である。なお、図1および図2には、光電変換セル10の配列方向(図1の図面視左右方向)をX軸方向とする右手系のXYZ座標系が付されている。光電変換装置11は、基板1上に複数の光電変換セル10が並べられて互いに電気的に接続されている。なお、図1においては図示の都合上、2つの光電変換セル10のみを示しているが、実際の光電変換装置11においては、図面左右方向(X軸方向)、あるいはさらにこれに垂直な方向(Y軸方向)に、多数の光電変換セル10が平面的に(二次元的に)配設されていてもよい。
次に、上記構成を有する光電変換装置11の製造方法について説明する。ここでは第1の半導体層3がCIGSの場合について説明する。まず、ガラス等から成る基板1の主面に、スパッタリング法等を用いてMo等から成る下部電極層2を所望のパターンに形成する。
まず、第1の半導体層3を形成するための原料溶液を作製した。原料溶液としては、米国特許第6992202号明細書に基づいて作製した単一源前駆体をピリジンに溶解したものを用いた。なお、この単一源前駆体としては、CuとInとフェニルセレノールとが1つの錯体分子を形成したものと、CuとGaとフェニルセレノールとが1つの錯体分子を形成したものとの混合体を用いた。
次に、比較試料を作製した。比較試料は、第1の半導体層の作製以外は上記評価試料の作製と同様にして作製した。比較試料の第1の半導体層の作製では、第1の皮膜~第3の皮膜の熱分解を、水を含まない雰囲気で各層とも同じ条件で行なった。すなわち、第1皮膜~第3の皮膜のそれぞれの熱分解工程において、各皮膜を窒素ガス雰囲気において280℃で10分加熱して、各皮膜に含まれる有機成分を熱分解した。
このようにして作製した評価試料および比較試料の光電変換効率の測定を以下のように実施した。いわゆる定常光ソーラシミュレーターを用いて、光電変換装置の受光面に対する光の照射強度が100mW/cm2であり且つAM(エアマス)が1.5である条件下での光電変換効率を測定した。その結果、比較試料の光電変換効率は10.0%であったのに対し、評価試料の光電変換効率は12.8%であり、比較試料よりも高くなっていることが分かった。
2、2a、2b、2c:下部電極層
3:第1の半導体層
4:第2の半導体層
7:接続導体
10:光電変換セル
11:光電変換装置
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- 電極層と、
該電極層上に配置された、I-III-VI族化合物を含む第1の半導体層と、
該第1の半導体層上に配置された、該第1の半導体層とpn接合を形成する第2の半導体層とを備えており、
前記第1の半導体層はVI-B族元素として硫黄、セレンおよびテルルのうちの少なくとも1種を含むとともに酸素を含んでおり、前記第1の半導体層における酸素の原子濃度は、前記第1の半導体層の厚み方向の中央部よりも前記電極層側の表面部の方で低くなっていることを特徴とする光電変換装置。 - 前記第1の半導体層における酸素の原子濃度は、前記中央部から前記電極層に向かって漸次低くなっていることを特徴とする請求項1に記載の光電変換装置。
- 前記第1の半導体層はIII-B族元素としてインジウムおよびガリウムを含んでおり、インジウムとガリウムとの合計に対するガリウムの原子濃度比が、前記中央部よりも前記電極層側の表面部の方で高くなっていることを特徴とする請求項1または2に記載の光電変換装置。
- インジウムとガリウムとの合計に対するガリウムの原子濃度比が、前記中央部から前記電極層に向かって漸次高くなっていることを特徴とする請求項3に記載の光電変換装置。
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