The structural,optical, and electrical properties of vacuum evaporated Cu-doped ZnTe polycrystalline thin films |
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Authors: | L. Feng D. Mao J. Tang R. T. Collins J. U. Trefny |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, 80401 Golden, CO;(2) Present address: Department of Materials Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China |
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Abstract: | We have studied the structural, optical, and electrical properties of thermally evaporated, Cu-doped, ZnTe thin films as a function of Cu concentration and post-deposition annealing temperature. X-ray diffraction measurements showed that the ZnTe films evaporated on room temperature substrates were characterized by an average grain size of 300Å with a (111) preferred orientation. Optical absorption measurements yielded a bandgap of 2.21 eV for undoped ZnTe. A bandgap shrinkage was observed for the Cu-doped films. The dark resistivity of the as-deposited ZnTe decreased by more than three orders of magnitude as the Cu concentration was increased from 4 to 8 at.% and decreased to less than 1 ohm-cm after annealing at 260°C. For films doped with 6–7 at.% Cu, an increase of resistivity was also observed during annealing at 150–200°C. The activation energy of the dark conductivity was measured as a function of Cu concentration and annealing temperature. Hall measurements yielded hole mobility values in the range between 0.1 and 1 cm2/V·s for both as-deposited and annealed films. Solar cells with a CdS/CdTe/ZnTe/metal structure were fabricated using Cudoped ZnTe as a back contact layer on electrodeposited CdTe. Fill factors approaching 0.75 and energy conversion efficiencies as high as 12.1% were obtained. |
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Keywords: | II-VI semiconductor polycrystalline thin films ZnTe |
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