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Hydrogen Diffusion in Chalcopyrite Solar Cell Materials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

A. Weidinger
Affiliation:
Hahn-Meitner Institute Berlin, Glienickerstr. 100, D-14109 Berlin, weidinger@hmi.de
J. Krauser
Affiliation:
Hahn-Meitner Institute Berlin, Glienickerstr. 100, D-14109 Berlin, weidinger@hmi.de
Th. Riedle
Affiliation:
Hahn-Meitner Institute Berlin, Glienickerstr. 100, D-14109 Berlin, weidinger@hmi.de
R. Klenk
Affiliation:
Hahn-Meitner Institute Berlin, Glienickerstr. 100, D-14109 Berlin, weidinger@hmi.de
M. Ch. Lux-Steiner
Affiliation:
Hahn-Meitner Institute Berlin, Glienickerstr. 100, D-14109 Berlin, weidinger@hmi.de
M. V. Yakushev
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, UK
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Abstract

Hydrogen diffusion in CuInSe 2 single crystals and CuInS2 thin films was studied by measuring the spreading of implantation profiles upon annealing. Deep implantation with an ion energy of 10 keV and sub-surface implantation with 300 eV were applied. The diffusion coefficients in both materials were found to be in the order of 10-14 to 10-13 cm2/s in the temperature range between 400 and 520 K.These fairly low diffusivities are typical for a trap and release transport process rather than intrinsic diffusion of interstitial hydrogen. In the polycrystalline CuInS2 films, hydrogen leaves the sample through the grain boundaries.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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