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Published June 1981 | Published
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Thermal stability of titanium nitride for shallow junction solar cell contacts

Abstract

To demonstrate the thermal stability of titanium nitride as a high-temperature diffusion barrier, the TiN-Ti-Ag metallization scheme has been tested on shallow-junction (~2000 Å) Si solar cells. Electrical measurements on reference samples with the Ti-Ag metallization scheme show serious degradation after a 600 °C, 10-min annealing. With the TiN-Ti-Ag scheme, no degradation of cell performance is observed after the same heat treatment if the TiN layer is >~1700 Å. The glass encapsulation of cells by electrostatic bonding requires such a heat treatment.

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© 1981 American Institute of Physics. (Received 18 September 1980; accepted for publication 1 March 1981) At Caltech, this work was supported in part by the Department of Energy and monitored by Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico (H.T. Weaver and M.B. Chamberlain).

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