Wafer-Scale Synthesis and Optical Characterization of InP Nanowire Arrays for Solar Cells

Overview

Journal Nano Lett

Publisher American Chemical Society

Specialty Biotechnology

Date 2021 Aug 27

PMID 34449221

Citations 3

Authors

Lukas Hrachowina

Nicklas Anttu

Magnus T Borgstrom

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Abstract

Nanowire solar cells have the potential to reach the same efficiencies as the world-record III-V solar cells while using a fraction of the material. For solar energy harvesting, large-area nanowire solar cells have to be processed. In this work, we demonstrate the synthesis of epitaxial InP nanowire arrays on a 2 inch wafer. We define five array areas with different nanowire diameters on the same wafer. We use a photoluminescence mapper to characterize the sample optically and compare it to a homogeneously exposed reference wafer. Both steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence maps are used to study the material's quality. From a mapping of reflectance spectra, we simultaneously extract the diameter and length of the nanowires over the full wafer. The extracted knowledge of large-scale nanowire synthesis will be crucial for the upscaling of nanowire-based solar cells, and the demonstrated wafer-scale characterization methods will be central for quality control during manufacturing.

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