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01.06.2013
Electrical properties of boron- and phosphorous-doped microcrystalline silicon thin films prepared by magnetron sputtering of heavily doped silicon targets
Erschienen in: Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics | Ausgabe 6/2013
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Abstract
The boron(B)- and phosphorous(P)-doped microcrystalline silicon (Si) thin films were prepared by magnetron sputtering of heavily B- and P-doped Si targets followed by rapid thermal annealing (RTA), their electrical properties were characterized by temperature-dependent Hall and resistivity measurements. It was observed that the dark conductivity and carrier concentration of the 260 nm B-doped Si films annealed at 1,100 °C in Ar were 3.4 S cm−1 and 1.6 × 1019 cm−3, respectively, which were about one order of magnitude higher than that of P-doped Si films. The activation energy of the B- and P-doped Si films were determined to be 0.23 eV and 0.79 eV, respectively. The dark conductivity of B- and P-doped Si films increased with the increase of film thickness, RTA temperature, and the incorporation of H2 in Ar during RTA. The present work provides an easy and non-toxic method for the preparation of doped microcrystalline Si thin films.