Hyperdoped silicon materials: from basic materials properties to sub-bandgap infrared photodetectors

MJ Sher, EG Hemme - Semiconductor Science and Technology, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Hyperdo** silicon, which introduces deep-level dopants into Si at concentrations near one
atomic percent, drastically changes its optoelectronic properties. We review recent progress …

Ultrafast laser-induced black silicon, from micro-nanostructuring, infrared absorption mechanism, to high performance detecting devices

JH Zhao, XB Li, QD Chen, ZG Chen, HB Sun - Materials Today Nano, 2020 - Elsevier
As the foremost semiconductor, silicon (Si) is the 'lifeblood'of the modern microelectronics
and optoelectronics industries. The development of Si infrared (IR) photodetectors is of great …

Ultrafast laser processing of silicon for photovoltaics

B Franta, E Mazur, SK Sundaram - International Materials Reviews, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The photovoltaics market has been growing rapidly in the past decade or so, driven by
policy support, growing economies of scale, and technological improvements. Continued …

[HTML][HTML] Simultaneous high crystallinity and sub-bandgap optical absorptance in hyperdoped black silicon using nanosecond laser annealing

B Franta, D Pastor, HH Gandhi… - Journal of Applied …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Hyperdoped black silicon fabricated with femtosecond laser irradiation has attracted interest
for applications in infrared photodetectors and intermediate band photovoltaics due to its …

Hyperdoped silicon: Processing, properties, and devices

Z Tong, M Bu, Y Zhang, D Yang… - Journal of Semiconductors, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Hyperdo** that introduces impurities with concentrations exceeding their equilibrium
solubility has been attracting great interest since the tuning of semiconductor properties …

A Laser‐Processed Silicon Solar Cell with Photovoltaic Efficiency in the Infrared

MI Sánchez, P Delaporte, Y Spiegel… - … status solidi (a), 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hyperdoped and textured silicon created with a femtosecond laser in the presence of SF6
gas has a highly absorbing surface with extended spectral sensitivity in the infrared. The …

Analytical model for extracting optical properties from absorptance of femtosecond-laser structured hyperdoped silicon

S Schäfer, P McKearney, S Paulus… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We set up an analytical optical model to emulate the absorptance spectra of light scattering,
sulfur-hyperdoped silicon that we fabricate by using femtosecond laser pulses. The model …

Hyperdoped crystalline silicon for infrared photodetectors by pulsed laser melting: a review

J Fu, D Yang, X Yu - physica status solidi (a), 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Infrared photodetectors based on crystalline silicon have attracted much attention due to
their low cost and good compatibility with complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor …

[HTML][HTML] Obtaining simultaneously high crystallinity and sub-bandgap absorption in femtosecond laser hyperdoped black silicon using ion beam etching

S Paulus, P Mc Kearney, F Völklein, S Kontermann - AIP Advances, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Femtosecond laser sulfur hyperdoped silicon (fs-hSi) is capable of absorbing photons in the
infrared spectral range while simultaneously exhibiting negligible reflection. However, laser …

[HTML][HTML] Carrier lifetimes in gold–hyperdoped silicon—Influence of dopant incorporation methods and concentration profiles

SS Dissanayake, NO Pallat, PK Chow, SQ Lim, Y Liu… - APL Materials, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Incorporating ultrahigh concentrations of deep-level dopants in silicon drastically alters
silicon's optoelectronic properties. Photodiodes built from silicon hyperdoped with gold …