Scanning infrared microscopy investigation of copper precipitation in cast multicrystalline silicon |
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Authors: | Zhenqiang Xi Deren Yang HJ Moeller |
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Institution: | aState Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People’s Republic of China bInstitute for Experimental Physics, TU Bergakademi Freiberg, Sibermann Str. 1, 09596 Freiberg, Germany |
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Abstract: | The behavior of copper precipitation in cast multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) annealed at different temperatures under air cooling (30 K/s) or slow cooling (0.3 K/s) was investigated by scanning infrared microscopy (SIRM). Comparing to Czochralski-grown silicon (Cz-Si), copper precipitated more easily in mc-Si, and the lowest temperature of copper precipitation in mc-Si was about 700 °C, lower than that in Cz-Si. It was also observed that copper preferably precipitated on grain boundaries so that near the grain boundaries the denuded zone formed. The results indicate that the defects including dislocations, grain boundaries and microdefects, as the heteronucleation sites, enhanced copper precipitation. Moreover, cooling rates had a great influence on the copper precipitation, especially at lower annealing temperatures. Generally air cooling led to the formation of high density of copper-precipitate colonies. |
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Keywords: | Silicon Copper Precipitation |
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