Patent ID: 6326304
Filing Date: 2001-12-04
Classification: H01L,Y02E,Y02P

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing an amorphous silicon-based thin film photoelectric conversion device having a stacked structure composed of a p type semiconductor layer, an i type amorphous silicon-based photoelectric conversion layer, and an n type semiconductor layer by plasma CVD, whereinat least one layer of said p type semiconductor layer, said I type amorphous silicon-based photoelectric conversion layer, and said n type semiconductor layer is formed on conditions that silane-type gas as a main component of raw material gas which is supplied into a plasma CVD reaction chamber and dilution gas containing hydrogen are used, flow rate of the dilution gas is at most four times that of said silane-type gas, partial pressure of the silane-type gas in said plasma CVD reaction chamber ranges from 1.2 Torr to 5.0 Torr, and the distance between a surface of a substrate mounted on one electrode and a surface of the other electrode opposed to said one electrode ranges from 8 mm to 15 mm, and the flow rate of said silane-type gas per a unit area of the surface of said electrode is at most 0.05 sccm/cm.sup.2.