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▼ [11p-W834-17] Significant photoresponsivity enhancement of BaSi2 epitaxial films by atomic hydrogen passivation
キーワード:BaSi2, Hydrogen passivation
Semiconducting material BaSi2 has many advantages for the solar cell application, such as a suitable band gap of 1.3 eV, a large absorption coefficient of 3 × 104 cm-1 at 1.5 eV, and a large minority-carrier diffusion length of ca. 10 μm [1]. The first-principle calculation predicts Si vacancies to be most likely to occur as point defects in BaSi2 regardless of Si-rich or Si poor growth condition and lead to the degradation of the minority-carrier properties of BaSi2[2]. Hence, it is important to make those active defects inactive in the bulk region of BaSi2 films. In this study, we investigate the effect of atomic H supply on the photoresponsivity of BaSi2 films and calculate the density of states (DOS) of BaSi2 having one Si vacancy and with H passivation.