HWCVD Technology Development Addressed to the High Rate Deposition of mi-c-Si:H

[eng] The first block of this thesis deals with the study of the degradation process of tungsten catalytic filaments in the field of silicon deposition with the Hot Wire Chemical Vapour Deposition (HWCVD) technique. The development of technological solutions addressed to the filaments protection wil...

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Autor: Nos Aguilà, Oriol
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/41810
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/41810
http://hdl.handle.net/10803/98346
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cèl·lules solars
Silici
Pel·lícules fines
Semiconductors
Deposició en fase de vapor
Solar cells
Silicon
Thin films
Vapor-plating
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Sumario:[eng] The first block of this thesis deals with the study of the degradation process of tungsten catalytic filaments in the field of silicon deposition with the Hot Wire Chemical Vapour Deposition (HWCVD) technique. The development of technological solutions addressed to the filaments protection will also be dealt as well as the design, fabrication and performance of a novel system for the automatic replacement of used filaments in a HWCVD reactor. The second block deals with the scaling up of HWCVD towards large area deposition and the existence of a scaling law that may allow the deposition of microcrystalline silicon (µc-Si:H) at high rate preserving the material quality.