Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
Contact formation to InP is plagued by violent metal-semiconductor intermixing that takes place during the contact sintering process. Because of this the InP solar cell cannot be sintered after contact deposition. This results in cell contact resistances that are orders of magnitude higher than those that could be achieved if sintering could be performed in a non-destructive manner. We report here on a truly unique contact system involving Au and Ge, which is easily fabricated, which exhibits extremely low values of contact resistivity, and in which there is virtually no metal-semiconductor interdiffusion, even after extended sintering. We present a description of this contact system and suggest possible mechanisms to explain the observed behavior.
Keywords:
ENERGY PRODUCTION AND CONVERSION
Type:
NASA-TM-106228
,
E-7946
,
NAS 1.15:106228
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IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference; May 10, 1993 - May 14, 1993; Louisville, KY; United States
Format:
application/pdf
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