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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 1985
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1983
Shin-ichiro Ishihara, Hirakata, JP;
Takashi Hirao, Ikoma, JP;
Koshiro Mori, Osaka, JP;
Motonori Mochizuki, Hirakata, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, JP;
Abstract
A method for making photovoltaic device comprising the steps of moving at least one substrate into a reaction chamber, causing a plasma reaction of raw material gases in said reaction chamber, thereby forming an amorphous silicon layer of a first conductivity type on said substrate, moving said at least one substrate into a next reaction chamber for a next plasma reaction, causing said next plasma reaction of next raw material gases in said reaction chamber, thereby forming a second amorphous silicon layer of a second conductivity type on said layer of the first conductivity type, the improvement being in after finishing said forming of said an amorphous silicon layer of a first conductivity type, changing the gas atmosphere of said reaction chamber into a different atmosphere which is substantially identical and of equal pressure to the next gas atmosphere of said next reaction chamber, and thereafter moving said substrate to said next reaction chamber.