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Ellipsometric investigation of porous silicon layers for the design of a DBR

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2008

A. Bardaoui ,
L. Boudaya ,
T. Abdellaoui ,
N. Ben Sédrine ,
M. Lajnef  and
R. Chtourou
A. Bardaoui*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Photovoltaïque, des Semiconducteurs et des Nanostructures, Centre de Recherche et des Technologies de l'énergie, BP 95 Hammam-Lif 2050, Tunisia
L. Boudaya
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Photovoltaïque, des Semiconducteurs et des Nanostructures, Centre de Recherche et des Technologies de l'énergie, BP 95 Hammam-Lif 2050, Tunisia
T. Abdellaoui
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Photovoltaïque, des Semiconducteurs et des Nanostructures, Centre de Recherche et des Technologies de l'énergie, BP 95 Hammam-Lif 2050, Tunisia
N. Ben Sédrine
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Photovoltaïque, des Semiconducteurs et des Nanostructures, Centre de Recherche et des Technologies de l'énergie, BP 95 Hammam-Lif 2050, Tunisia
M. Lajnef
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Photovoltaïque, des Semiconducteurs et des Nanostructures, Centre de Recherche et des Technologies de l'énergie, BP 95 Hammam-Lif 2050, Tunisia
R. Chtourou
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Photovoltaïque, des Semiconducteurs et des Nanostructures, Centre de Recherche et des Technologies de l'énergie, BP 95 Hammam-Lif 2050, Tunisia
*
afrah.bardaoui@crten.rnrt.tn
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Abstract

Porous silicon layers (PSL) were fabricated by electrochemical etching and investigated by spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) in the energy range 0.6−5 eV. Within the effective medium approximation (EMA) and through an optical model consisting of a mixture of void and crystalline silicon (cSi), we were able to determine the porosity (void concentration) and the thicknesses of the PSL. The PSL were divided into several sublayers in order to obtain the best agreement between measured and simulated spectra. Once the etching parameters have been controlled and by choosing the appropriate conditions, it was possible to design a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) with a high reflectivity band centered at 800 nm. This DBR consists on stacks of alternate PSL having two different refractive indices.

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The European Physical Journal - Applied Physics , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , July 2008 , pp. 87 - 91
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© EDP Sciences, 2008

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