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    Aluminium-induced crystallization of amorphous silicon films deposited by DC magnetron sputtering on glasses
    (2011) Kezzoula, F.; Hammouda, A.; Kechouane, M.; Simon, p.; Abaidia, Seddik-El-Hak; Keffous, A.; Cherfi, R.; Menari, H.; Manseri, A.
    Amorphous silicon (a-Si) and hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) films were deposited by DC magnetron sputtering technique with argon and hydrogen plasma mixture on Al deposited by thermal evaporation on glass substrates. The a-Si/Al and a-Si:H/Al thin films were annealed at different temperatures ranging from 250 to 550 °C during 4 h in vacuum-sealed bulb. The effects of annealing temperature on optical, structural and morphological properties of as-grown as well as the vacuum-annealed a-Si/Al and a-Si:H/Al thin films are presented in this contribution. The averaged transmittance of a-Si:H/Al film increases upon increasing the annealing temperature. XRD measurements clearly evidence that crystallization is initiated at 450 °C. The number and intensity of diffraction peaks appearing in the diffraction patterns are more important in a-Si:H/Al than that in a-Si/Al layers. Results show that a-Si:H films deposited on Al/glass crystallize above 450 °C and present better crystallization than the a-Si layers. The presence of hydrogen induces an improvement of structural properties of poly-Si prepared by aluminium-induced crystallization (AIC)
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    Development of an Antireflection Layer Using a LDS Based on β-SiC Nanoparticles
    (Springer, 2020) Benfadel, K.; Kaci, S.; Hamidouche, F.; Keffous, A.; Benmounah, A.; Manseri, A.; Achacha, S.
    The main objective of this work is to use β-SiC (also called 3C-SiC) silicon carbide nanoparticles to formulate composite layer for wavelength conversion. Silicon Carbide nanopowders (npβ-SiC) were successfully synthesized by sol-gel method and followed by carbothermal reduction. Composite thin layers based on np-β-SiC incorporated into polyvinyl alcohol, (PVA) as matrix, where prepared. We have investigated the composite layers deposited silicon solar cell as a luminescent down shifting layer (LDS) to convert UV wavelengths. The texturation of the substrates by making pyramids, pyramids with nanowires was investigated in order to decrease the surface reflectance of silicon surface. An improvement in the spectral response of the obtained solar cells was very remarkable. In order to confirm this property, electro-optical characterizations were carried out on the solar cell with the developed composite layer and also on that without β-SiC/PVA coating, as reference. The morphological quality of the used substrates was examined by SEM images. EQE measurements have shown a noticeable increase showing the ability to use the prepared composite layer as lightweight encapsulation material for photovoltaic devices