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Behaviour of Natural and Implanted Iron during Annealing of Multicrystalline Silicon Wafers

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Changes in the concentration of interstitial iron in multicrystalline silicon wafers after high temperature annealing (900°C) have been monitored by carrier lifetime measurements. Two cooling rates were investigated. The first was considered ‘fast’, meaning the interstitial Fe had no time to diffuse to precipitation sites, and should therefore be frozen-in, despite being far above the solubility limit at lower temperatures. A second ‘slow’ cool down to 650°C allowed ample time for the Fe to reach the surfaces or other internal precipitation sites. Surprisingly, in both cases the Fe remained in a supersaturated state. This indicates the precipitation process is not diffusion-limited, and that another energetic barrier to precipitate formation must be present. Since the slow cooling used here is similar to the cooling rate experienced by multicrystalline ingots after crystallisation, this precipitate-impeding mechanism is probably responsible for the surprisingly high interstitial Fe concentrations often found in as-grown multicrystalline silicon wafers.

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Solid State Phenomena (Volumes 108-109)

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519-524

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December 2005

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Daniel Macdonald, Thomas Roth, L.J. Geerligs, Andres Cuevas

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Crystalline Silicon, Iron, Precipitation, Recombination

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