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Real-Time Investigations on the Formation of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 While Annealing Precursors Produced with a Combination of Sputtering and Thermal Evaporation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Stefan Jost ,
Frank Hergert ,
Rainer Hock  and
Michael Purwins
Stefan Jost
Affiliation:
[email protected], University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair for Crystallography & Structural Physics, Staudtstr. 3, Erlangen, 91058, Germany
Frank Hergert
Affiliation:
[email protected], University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair for Crystallography & Structural Physics, Staudtstr. 3, Erlangen, D-91058, Germany
Rainer Hock
Affiliation:
[email protected], University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair for Crystallography & Structural Physics, Staudtstr. 3, Erlangen, D-91058, Germany
Michael Purwins
Affiliation:
[email protected], University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Crystal Growth Laboratory, Department of Materials Science VI, Martensstr. 7, Erlangen, D-91058, Germany
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Abstract

We have investigated the formation of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin films by real-time X-ray diffraction (XRD) experiments while annealing differently deposited and composed stacked elemental layer (SEL) precursors.

The in-situ measurements during the selenization of bi-layered Cu/In precursors reveal, that the semiconductor formation process is similar for precursors with thermally evaporated or sputtered indium. In both cases, the formation of binary copper and indium selenides is observed at temperatures around the melting point of selenium. After subsequent selenium transfer reactions, the chalcopyrite CuInSe2 is formed from the educt phases Cu2-xSe and InSe.

The addition of gallium leads to the formation of the intermetallic precursor phase Cu9Ga4, which reduces the overall amount of copper and gallium selenides at process temperatures above 500 K. This causes an ongoing selenization in the indium selenium subsystem, which results in the formation of CuInSe2 from the educt phases Cu2-xSe and the selenium richest indium selenide g-In2Se3.

Keywords

thin filmphotovoltaicx-ray diffraction (XRD)
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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1012: Symposium Y – Thin-Film Compound Semiconductor Photovoltaics-2007 , 2007 , 1012-Y10-01
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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