Dynamic Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy (D-HVPE) as a Route to Inexpensive, High-Performance III-V Materials and Devices

Aaron Ptak, John Simon, Kevin Schulte, Wondwosen Metaferia, Alessandro Cavalli

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Abstract

This work describes the recent development of Dynamic Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy (D-HVPE), which extends the standard HVPE process to allow for the deposition of relatively complex heterostructures and devices at growth rates in excess of 300 µm/h. This process uses low-cost elemental metal precursors, and uses all of the reactants efficiently to create high-performance devices. D-HVPE also lends itself to potential in-line growth, which when combined with the low-cost precursors and extremely fast growth rates for high-quality III-V materials, can lead to significantly lower epitaxial growth costs. Here, we focus on the growth of high-efficiency photovoltaics as an example device to show the capabilities of the D-HVPE growth process.

Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages4
StatePublished - 2019
Event2019 International Conference on Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, CS MANTECH 2019 - Minneapolis, United States
Duration: 29 Apr 20192 May 2019

Conference

Conference2019 International Conference on Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, CS MANTECH 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMinneapolis
Period29/04/192/05/19

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 CS Mantech. All rights reserved.

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/CP-5900-73313

Keywords

  • High throughput
  • Hydride vapor phase epitaxy
  • III-V devices
  • III-V materials
  • Low cost

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