TY - GEN
T1 - Effects of fluorine incorporation on the structural and electrical properties of Diamond-like carbon
AU - Nakanishi, Kento
AU - Otsuka, Jun
AU - Hiratsuka, Masanori
AU - Du, Chen Chung
AU - Shirakura, Akira
AU - Suzuki, Tetsuya
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Diamond-like carbon (DLC) has widespread attention as a new material for its application to thin film solar cells and other semiconducting devices. DLC can be produced at a lower cost than amorphous silicon, which is utilized for solar cells today. However, the electrical properties of DLC are insufficient for this purpose because of many dangling bonds in DLC. To solve this problem, we investigated the effects of the fluorine incorporation on the structural and electrical properties of DLC. We prepared five kinds of fluorinated DLC (F-DLC) thin film with different amounts of fluorine. Films were deposited by the radio-frequency plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (RF-PECVD) method. C6H6 and C6HF5 were used as source gases. The total gas flow rate was constant and the gas flow rate ratio R (=C6H6 / (C6H6 + C6HF5)) was changed from 0 to 1 in 0.25 ratio steps. We also prepared nitrogen doped DLC (F-DLC) on p-Si using N2 gas as a doping gas to form nitrogen doped DLC (F-DLC) / p-Si heterojunction diodes. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) showed that fluorine concentration in the DLC films was controlled. Moreover, the XPS analysis of the CI s spectrum at R=2/4 showed the presence of CF bonding. At R=l, CF2 bonding was observed in addition to CF bonding. The sheet resistivity of the films changed from 3.07x1012 to 4.86><109 Ω. The minimum value was obtained at R=2/4. The current-voltage characteristics indicated that nitrogen doped F-DLC of 2/4 and p-Si heterojunction diode exhibited the best rectification characteristics and its energy conversion efficiency had been maximized. This is because of a decrease of dangling bonds density by ESR analysis and an increase of sp2 structures by Raman analysis. When the fluorine is over certain content, the sheet resistivity increases because chain structures become larger, which is due to the CF2 bonding in F-DLC prevents ring structures. Many C2F4 species were observed and it may become precursors of the chain structure domains, such as (CF2)n this study, we revealed effects of fluorine incorporation on DLC and succeeded in increasing its conductivity and improving rectification characteristics of DLC/ p-Si heterojunction diodes. Our results indicate that DLC fluorination is effective for the semiconducting material, such as solar cell applications. copy; 2015 Materials Research Society.
AB - Diamond-like carbon (DLC) has widespread attention as a new material for its application to thin film solar cells and other semiconducting devices. DLC can be produced at a lower cost than amorphous silicon, which is utilized for solar cells today. However, the electrical properties of DLC are insufficient for this purpose because of many dangling bonds in DLC. To solve this problem, we investigated the effects of the fluorine incorporation on the structural and electrical properties of DLC. We prepared five kinds of fluorinated DLC (F-DLC) thin film with different amounts of fluorine. Films were deposited by the radio-frequency plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (RF-PECVD) method. C6H6 and C6HF5 were used as source gases. The total gas flow rate was constant and the gas flow rate ratio R (=C6H6 / (C6H6 + C6HF5)) was changed from 0 to 1 in 0.25 ratio steps. We also prepared nitrogen doped DLC (F-DLC) on p-Si using N2 gas as a doping gas to form nitrogen doped DLC (F-DLC) / p-Si heterojunction diodes. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) showed that fluorine concentration in the DLC films was controlled. Moreover, the XPS analysis of the CI s spectrum at R=2/4 showed the presence of CF bonding. At R=l, CF2 bonding was observed in addition to CF bonding. The sheet resistivity of the films changed from 3.07x1012 to 4.86><109 Ω. The minimum value was obtained at R=2/4. The current-voltage characteristics indicated that nitrogen doped F-DLC of 2/4 and p-Si heterojunction diode exhibited the best rectification characteristics and its energy conversion efficiency had been maximized. This is because of a decrease of dangling bonds density by ESR analysis and an increase of sp2 structures by Raman analysis. When the fluorine is over certain content, the sheet resistivity increases because chain structures become larger, which is due to the CF2 bonding in F-DLC prevents ring structures. Many C2F4 species were observed and it may become precursors of the chain structure domains, such as (CF2)n this study, we revealed effects of fluorine incorporation on DLC and succeeded in increasing its conductivity and improving rectification characteristics of DLC/ p-Si heterojunction diodes. Our results indicate that DLC fluorination is effective for the semiconducting material, such as solar cell applications. copy; 2015 Materials Research Society.
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U2 - 10.1557/opl.2015.306
DO - 10.1557/opl.2015.306
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84938835377
T3 - Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings
SP - 40
EP - 45
BT - Diamond Electronics and Biotechnology - Fundamentals to Applications
A2 - Moran, D. A. J.
A2 - Swain, G. M.
A2 - Cheng, C.-L.
A2 - Nemanich, R. J.
PB - Materials Research Society
T2 - 2014 MRS Fall Meeting
Y2 - 30 November 2014 through 5 December 2014
ER -