Cheetah project WebSite: Today's Challenges

Technical Info

MAIN FEATURES:

The mission of the Institute is to perform basic and applied research in the fields of growth, characterization and processing of crystalline matter and to fulfil service tasks for partners and customers in industry and science.Main PV RTD tasks of the Institute are

growth of crystals with dimensions between decimeters and nanometers
development of growth and processing technologies
characterization of crystals and development of methods for characterizing them
design and construction of components for growth, processing and characterization facilities

IKZ-Si/Ge Nanocrystals Research group involved in CHEETAH project is focussed on:

Silicon on glass

Low-temperature growth of silicon layers from metallic solutions
Application of amorphous substrates (glass) as precondition for cost-saving solar cells
Well-defined production of silicon seed layers by amorphous-crystalline phase transition (ALC) catalyzed by liquid metallic droplets
Structural and electrical characterization both of seed and crystallite layers

Si/Ge nanocrystals

Vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth of nanowires under UVH conditions
Thermodynamics of liquid solid phase transition and investigation of the growth kinetics of nanowires
Predefined localization of growth sites of nanostructures by local anodic oxidation (LAO) or focused ion beams (FIB)
Embedding of nanostructures within hydrogen silsesquioxane (HSQ) and epitaxial overgrowth starting from uncovered parts of such nanocrystals

The infrastucture offers to CHEETAH project:

Preparation of Silicon and CIGS precursors
   - Liquid Phase Epitaxy
   - Physical Vapor Deposition
Morphological characterization
    - SEM
    - FIB
    - AFM
Chemical characterization
   - EDX
Characterization of Crystallinity
   - XRD
   - Raman

LIMITATIONS OR CONSTRAINTS:

The access will be allowed with scientific assistance from IKZ

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