{"title":"Surface recombination velocity and lifetime in InP measured by transient microwave reflectance","authors":"S. Bothra, S. Tyagi, S. Ghandhi, J. Borrego","doi":"10.1109/PVSC.1990.111656","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Minority carrier lifetime and surface recombination velocity are determined in organometallic vapor-phase epitaxy (OMVPE)-grown InP by a contactless microwave technique. For lightly doped n-type InP, a surface recombination velocity of 5000 cm/s is measured. However, in solar cells with a heavily doped n-type emitter a surface recombination velocity of 1*10/sup 6/ cm/s is observed. Possible reasons for this due to surface pinning are discussed. The effects of various chemical treatments and SiO on the surface recombination velocity are measured.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":211778,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Conference on Photovoltaic Specialists","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1990-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Conference on Photovoltaic Specialists","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.1990.111656","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Minority carrier lifetime and surface recombination velocity are determined in organometallic vapor-phase epitaxy (OMVPE)-grown InP by a contactless microwave technique. For lightly doped n-type InP, a surface recombination velocity of 5000 cm/s is measured. However, in solar cells with a heavily doped n-type emitter a surface recombination velocity of 1*10/sup 6/ cm/s is observed. Possible reasons for this due to surface pinning are discussed. The effects of various chemical treatments and SiO on the surface recombination velocity are measured.<>