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PECVD Mirror

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his all-new technology sets a new benchmark in the PECVD deposition universe.
The INDEOtec team has worked successfully at the development of a really innovative reactor system, which allows the deposition of both sides of a substrate without any need to break the vacuum and without the need of substrate flipping.

Plasma from top and beneath

Based on the IRFE design platform for the PECVD Classic reactor, our engineers went even further and introduced a 2nd electrode and a carrier plate with holes, thus enabling the double-sided plasma generation and hence, top and bottom deposition of the substrate. The height level at which the carrier plate is inserted into the reactor defines the deposition mode, either from the top or from the bottom.

PECVD Mirror

This proprietary, truly innovative concept paves the way for numerous applications:

  • Double-sided PECVD deposition of intrinsic and p/n doped a-Si:H layers for heterojunction PV cell devices
  • Adaption of film deposition to slightly bended substrates (wafer bending)
  • Customized thin film thickness profiles across the substrate surface without any change of plasma composition or stoichiometry
PECVD Mirror - Wafer


Excellent layer properties

Due to the reactor design, which allows an enhanced control of the plasma
process, excellent layer properties will be obtained.
 
Examples for layers on wafer placed on hole carrier plates:

  • Passivation > 10 ms (@ 5x1014 cm-3) for i-layer a-Si:H (4’’ FZ)
  • Passivation > 5 ms (@ 5x1014 cm-3) for i/p-layer and i/n-layer (6’’ CZ)
PECVD Mirror Multiple layer


Multiple layer deposition

Multiple layers (layer stacks) may be deposited in one reactor without any interruption of the vacuum.

 
Example:
PECVD deposition of intrinsic and doped a-Si:H layers onto Si wafers for the manufacture of hetero-junction PV cells.