Hydrogen effects on the thermal conductivity of delocalized vibrational modes in amorphous silicon nitride

JL Braun, SW King, ER Hoglund, MA Gharacheh… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Hydrogenated amorphous dielectric thin films are critical materials in a wide array of
technologies. In this work, we present a thorough investigation of the thermal conductivity of …

Development of advanced hydrogenation processes for silicon solar cells via an improved understanding of the behaviour of hydrogen in silicon

BJ Hallam, PG Hamer… - Progress in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The understanding and development of advanced hydrogenation processes for silicon solar
cells are presented. Hydrogen passivation is incorporated into virtually all silicon solar cells …

Bulk and surface passivation of silicon solar cells accomplished by silicon nitride deposited on industrial scale by microwave PECVD

W Soppe, H Rieffe, A Weeber - Progress in Photovoltaics …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Bulk and surface passivation by silicon nitride has become an indispensable element in
industrial production of multicrystalline silicon (mc‐Si) solar cells. Microwave PECVD is a …

Influence of the high-temperature “firing” step on high-rate plasma deposited silicon nitride films used as bulk passivating antireflection coatings on silicon solar cells

J Hong, WMM Kessels, WJ Soppe… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
The influence of a short high-temperature step, comparable to the so-called “firing” of the
metallization on silicon solar cells, on properties of high-rate (> 0.5 nm/s) plasma deposited …

Modelling of hydrogen transport in silicon solar cell structures under equilibrium conditions

P Hamer, B Hallam, RS Bonilla, PP Altermatt… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents a model for the introduction and redistribution of hydrogen in silicon
solar cells at temperatures between 300 and 700 C based on a second order backwards …

Passivation issues in active pixel CMOS image sensors

JL Regolini, D Benoit, P Morin - Microelectronics Reliability, 2007 - Elsevier
Most of the integrated circuit industry follows a final passivation process which consists of a
low temperature passivation layer deposition and a thermal anneal. This two step process is …

Hydrogenation of Si from SiNx (H) films: Characterization of H introduced into the Si

F Jiang, M Stavola, A Rohatgi, D Kim, J Holt… - Applied Physics …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
A promising method to introduce H into multicrystalline Si solar cells in order to passivate
bulk defects is by the postdeposition annealing of a H-rich, SiNx surface layer. It has …

[HTML][HTML] Annealing prior to contact firing: A potential new approach to suppress LeTID

C Sen, C Chan, P Hamer, M Wright, U Varshney… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work, we introduce a new approach to suppress light and elevated temperature-
induced degradation (LeTID) by applying a pre-fire annealing step using rapid thermal …

Band-tail photoluminescence in hydrogenated amorphous silicon oxynitride and silicon nitride films

H Kato, N Kashio, Y Ohki, KS Seol… - Journal of applied physics, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
Photoluminescence (PL) measurements were performed on a series of hydrogenated
amorphous silicon oxynitride and silicon nitride films with different nitrogen contents …

Effects of interface traps and hydrogen on the low-frequency noise of irradiated MOS devices

DM Fleetwood, EX Zhang, RD Schrimpf… - … on Nuclear Science, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A re-evaluation of experimental results within the context of first-principles calculations
strongly suggests that interface traps can contribute significantly to low-frequency (1/) noise …