Boron Doped diamond films as electron donors in photovoltaics: An X-ray absorption and hard X-ray photoemission study

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 14, 2014, Pages

  Kapilashrami, M ^a,b   Conti, G ^c,d   Zegkinoglou, I ^a,b   Nemsak S ^c,d   Conlon, C S ^c,d   Torndahl T ^e   Fjallstrom V ^e   Lischner, J ^f   Louie, Steven G ^d,f   Hamers, R J ^g   Zhang, L ^g   Guo, J H ^a   Fadley, C S ^c,d   Himpsel, F J ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; COPPER METALLOGRAPHY; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; SOLAR CELLS; VALENCE BANDS; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; X RAYS;

BORON-DOPED DIAMOND FILMS; HARD X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; HARD X-RAY PHOTOEMISSION; QUASIPARTICLE BANDS; SOFT X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES; SOFT X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; VALENCE BAND OFFSETS; VALENCE-BAND MAXIMUMS;

DIAMOND FILMS;

EID: 84907978497     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: 10897550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4897166     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. A chart of solar cell efficiencies is given by NREL at http://www.nrel.gov/ncpv/images/efficiency-chart.jpg.
2. F. J. Himpsel, P. L. Cook, G. de la Torre, J. M. Garcia-Lastra, R. Gonzalez-Moreno, J.-H. Guo, R. J. Hamers, C. X. Kronawitter, P. S. Johnson, J. E. Ortega, D. Pickup, M.-E. Ragoussi, C. Rogero, A. Rubio, R. E. Ruther, L. Vayssieres, W. Yang, and I. Zegkinoglou, J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom. 190, 2 (2013). 10.1016/j.elspec.2012.10.002
3. P. Jackson, D. Hariskos, E. Lotter, S. Paetel, R. Wuerz, R. Menner, W. Wischmann, and M. Powalla, Prog. Photovoltaics 19, 894 (2011). 10.1002/pip.1078
4. I. Repins, M. A. Contreras, B. Egaas, C. DeHart, J. Scharf, C. L. Perkins, B. To, and R. Noufi, Prog. Photovoltaics 16, 235 (2008). 10.1002/pip.822
5. M. Kapilashrami, C. X. Kronawitter, T. Törndahl, J. Lindahl, A. Hultqvist, W.-C. Wang, C.-L. Chang, S. S. Mao, and J.-H. Guo, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 14, 10154 (2012). 10.1039/c2cp41394a
6. K. Orgassa, H. W. Schock, and J. H. Werner, Thin Solid Films 387, 431 (2003) 10.1016/S0040-6090(03)00257-8.
7. B. Johnson, J. Klaer, S. Merdes, M. Gorgoi, B. Höpfner, A. Vollmer, and I. Lauermann, J. Electron. Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom. 190, 42 (2013). 10.1016/j.elspec.2013.01.007
8. A. Kraft, Int. J. Electrochem. Sci. 2, 355 (2007).
9. D. M. Gruen, A. R. Krauss, C. D. Zuiker, R. Csencsits, L. J. Terminello, J. A. Carlisle, I. Jimenez, D. G. J. Sutherland, D. K. Shuh, W. Tong, and F. J. Himpsel, Appl. Phys. Lett. 68, 1640 (1996). 10.1063/1.115677
10. W. S. Yeap, X. Liu, D. Bevk, L. Lutsen, M. Fahlman, W. Maes, and K. Haenen, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 6, 10322 (2014). 10.1021/am501783b
11. I. Zegkinoglou, P. L. Cook, P. S. Johnson, W. Yang, J.-H. Guo, D. Pickup, R. Gonzalez-Moreno, C. Rogero, R. E. Ruther, M. L. Rigsby, J. E. Ortega, R. J. Hamers, and F. J. Himpsel, J. Phys. Chem. C 116, 13877 (2012). 10.1021/jp304016t
12. T. Strother, T. Knickerbocker, J. N. Russell, Jr., J. E. Butler, L. M. Smith, and R. J. Hamers, Langmuir 18, 968 (2002). 10.1021/la0112561
13. J. Lindahl, U. Zimmermann, P. Szaniawski, T. Torndahl, A. Hultqvist, P. Salom, C. Platzer-Bjorkman, and M. Edoff, IEEE J. Photovoltaics 3 (3), 1100 (2013). 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2013.2256232
14. M. I. Alonso, M. Garriga, C. A. Durante Rincon, E. Hernández, and M. Leon, Appl. Phys. A 74, 659 (2002). 10.1007/s003390100931
15. P. L. Cook, W. Yang, X. Liu, J. M. García-Lastra, A. Rubio, and F. J. Himpsel, J. Chem. Phys. 134, 204707 (2011). 10.1063/1.3592937
16. E. J. Mele and J. J. Ritsko, Phys. Rev. Lett. 43, 68 (1979). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.43.68
17. E. A. Kraut, R. W. Grant, J. R. Waldrop, and S. P. Kowalczyk, Phys. Rev. B 28, 1965 (1983). 10.1103/PhysRevB.28.1965
18. S. Tanuma, C. J. Powell, and D. R. Penn, Surf. Int. Anal. 20, 77 (1993). 10.1002/sia.740200112
19. C. D. Clark, P. J. Dean, and P. V. Harris, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. A 277, 312 (1964). 10.1098/rspa.1964.0025
20. F. J. Himpsel, J. A. Knapp, J. A. Van Vechten, and D. E. Eastman, Phys. Rev. B 20, 624 (1979). 10.1103/PhysRevB.20.624
21. L. Diederich, O. M. Kuttel, P. Aebi, and L. Schlapbach, Surf. Sci. 418, 219 (1998). 10.1016/S0039-6028(98)00718-3
22. J. F. Morar, F. J. Himpsel, G. Hollinger, G. Hughes, and J. L. Jordan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 1960 (1985). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.54.1960
23. P. E. Batson and J. Bruley, Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 350 (1991). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.350
24. A. T. Collins and A. W. S. J. Williams, Physica C 13, 1789 (1971);
25. B. Massarani and J. C. Bourgoin, Phys. Rev. B 17, 1758 (1978); 10.1103/PhysRevB.17.1758
26. J. C. Bourgoin, J. Krynicki, and B. Blanchar, Phys. Status Solidi A 52, 293 (1979). 10.1002/pssa.v52:1
27. J. Nakamura, N. Yamada, K. Kuroki, T. Oguchi, K. Okada, Y. Takano, M. Nagao, I. Sakaguchi, T. Takenouchi, H. Kawarada, R. C. C. Perera, and D. L. Ederer, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 77, 054711 (2008). 10.1143/JPSJ.77.054711
28. P.-A. Glans, T. Learmonth, K. E. Smith, S. Ferro, A. De Battisti, M. Mattesini, R. Ahuja, and J.-H. Guo, Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 162103 (2013). 10.1063/1.4802814
29. Y. Kato, F. Matsui, T. Shimizu, H. Daimon, T. Matsushita, and F. Z. Guo, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 251914 (2007). 10.1063/1.2824844
30. S. A. Chambers, Y. Liang, Z. Yu, R. Droopad, J. Ramdani, and K. Eisenbeiseret, Appl. Phys. Lett. 77, 1662 (2000). 10.1063/1.1310209
31. R. W. Grant, J. R. Waldrop, and E. A. Kraut, J. Vac. Sci. Tec. 15, 1451 (1978); 10.1116/1.569806
32. E. A. Kraut, R. W. Grant, J. R. Waldrop, and S. P. Eowalczyk, Phys. Rev. Lett. 44, 1620 (1980). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.44.1620
33. S. A. Chambers, T. Droubay, T. C. Kaspar, and M. Gutowski, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 22, 2205 (2004). 10.1116/1.1768525
34. M. S. Hybertsen and S. G. Louie, Phys. Rev. B 34, 5390 (1986). 10.1103/PhysRevB.34.5390
35. J. Deslippe, G. Samsonidze, M. Jain, M. L. Cohen, and S. G. Louie, Comput. Phys. Commun. 183, 1269 (2012). 10.1016/j.cpc.2011.12.006
36. J. Lischner, S. Nemsak, G. Conti, G. K. Palsson, A. Hloskovsky, W. Drube, C. Fadley, and S. G. Louie, " Accurate determination of the valence band edge in hard x-ray photoemission spectra by means of GW theory " (unpublished).
37. M. I. Hossain, P. Chelvanathan, M. Zaman, M. R. Karim, M. A. Alghoul, and N. Amin, Chalcogenide Lett. 8 (5), 315 (2011).
38. C. Bandis and B. B. Pate, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 777 (1995); 10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.777
39. C. Bandis and B. B. Pate, Phys. Rev. B 52, 12056 (1995). 10.1103/PhysRevB.52.12056
40. K. Shi, X. L. Liu, D. B. Li, J. Wang, H. P. Song, X. Q. Xu, H. Y. Wei, C. M. Jiao, S. Y. Yang, H. Song, Q. S. Zhu, and Z. G. Wang, Appl. Surf. Sci. 257, 8110 (2011). 10.1016/j.apsusc.2011.04.118
41. K. Ishizaka, R. Eguchi, S. Tsuda, A. Chainani, T. Yokoya, T. Kiss, T. Shimojima, T. Togashi, S. Watanabe, C.-T. Chen, Y. Takano, M. Nagao, I. Sakaguchi, T. Takenouchi, H. Kawarada, and S. Shin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 166402 (2008). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.166402