Automatic horizontal silicon substrate film producing device
Technical field:
The present invention relates to the Application Areas of sun power, specifically a kind of adopt modular design, can be according to the flexible automatic horizontal silicon substrate film PECVD production equipment of adjustment of customer demand.
Background technology:
As everyone knows; Being on the rise of energy dilemma and environmental pollution; Promoted developing rapidly of photovoltaic industry greatly; In photovoltaic cell family, silicon-base thin-film battery is not owing to receive the restriction and unique advantages such as low light level power generation performance of silicon material shortage, and increasing photovoltaic field investor has invested the silicon-base thin-film battery production field with the sight of noting.
In the silicon-base thin-film battery manufacturing processed; Most important producing apparatus is exactly the PECVD depositing device that is used for the depositing silicon base film; The technical threshold that this manufacturing field of equipment needs is higher; One to grasp in several abroad companies (Oerlikon, AppliedMaterials and ULVAC) hand firmly, and domestic photovoltaic enterprise buys suite of equipment with high price from these several companies.What use in the market generally is flat locellus continuous coating apparatus, adopts independent chamber to deposit different retes successively.But traditional flat fraction continuous coating apparatus robotization, integrated degree are lower, and the position relative fixed of each chamber can not be used alternatingly, if the centre has a certain chamber to break down maybe need safeguard whole process of production is interrupted.And general a set of equipment is only applicable to a fixed process system, in case process system is adjusted compelled the eliminating with regard to might adapting to new process system, brings about great losses.The problems referred to above are present in this industry always, do not have good solution so far.
Summary of the invention:
The objective of the invention is to overcome the deficiency of above-mentioned prior art, provide the good employing modular design of a kind of result of use, can be according to the flexible automatic horizontal silicon substrate film PECVD production equipment of adjustment of customer demand.
The present invention can reach through following measure:
A kind of automatic horizontal silicon substrate film producing device is characterized in that being made up of heating zone, vacuum transition section 1, deposition section, vacuum transition section 2, cooling section, and the automatic brake plate valve is loaded between each working spaces, and heating zone and cooling section are antivacuum section.
The deposition section is made up of at least two deposition module among the present invention; Each deposition module obtains device, air distributing device and gas barrier by sediment chamber, vacuum transition chamber, transmission mechanism, position-measurement device, vacuum and forms; The sediment chamber is distributed in the both sides of vacuum transition chamber; Each sediment chamber links to each other with a dried pump of technology respectively; The shared cover vacuum of sediment chamber and vacuum transition chamber obtains device, the deposition module two ends are equipped with coupling device, and the size and dimension of coupling device is identical or cooperatively interact; Through coupling device the deposition module that is arranged in parallel is coupled together the deposition section that forms a continuous coating, the quantity that this device can increase and decrease different film deposition modules according to the demands of different that coating process and production capacity design is mated.
Heating zone device of the present invention adopts the heating of continuous gradient heating means, but gradient substrate is heated to design temperature, this device is the highest can be with substrate even heating to 350 degree centigrade.
Plate valve rolls automatically with being equipped with between the vacuum transition chamber in the sediment chamber in the deposition module of the present invention, and vacuum tightness can be provided with vacuum pressure reduction as requested between sediment chamber and the vacuum transition chamber, avoids crossed contamination.
The quantity that deposits each film deposition module in the section among the present invention can be mated arrangement according to the difference of required time of depositional coating, to obtain optimum working efficiency.
Grating chi and fine motion cylinder are equipped with in the positive plate below in the sediment chamber of the present invention, can accurately control the positive plate adjustable height, and tolerance range can reach 10 microns.
Be provided with horizontal roller and vertical roller in the vacuum transition chamber in the deposition module of the present invention; Vertically roller is installed in the middle of the horizontal roller, and laterally the roller stationkeeping is constant, and vertically roller can bidirectional rolling; And vertically the roller below is equipped with the fine motion cylinder and can regulates up-down; When needs were fed forward substrate, vertically roller was in horizontal roller sustained height, and laterally roller work is fed forward substrate; When needs are delivered into the sediment chamber with substrate or from the sediment chamber substrate are exported, then rise vertical roller, the vertically reverse work of roller.
Sediment chamber and vacuum transition chamber have all been installed temperature survey and heating control apparatus in the deposition module of the present invention; Can make in the substrate transport process and keep constant temperature; When different retes need different temperature of reaction, also can accurately control the temperature of reaction of sediment chamber.
The deposition control of the transmission of substrate of the present invention and each rete etc. are all omnidistance to be controlled by computer automatically, need not any artificial manual operation.
The present invention compared with prior art has the following advantages:
1, heating zone of the present invention selects for use the gradient-heated mode to heat, and rate of heating is fast, is heated evenly.
2, the present invention's section of deposition adopts modular design, and the coupling device that size and dimension is identical or cooperatively interact is all adopted at each deposition module two ends, is convenient to install.
3, two sediment chambers in each deposition module can not influence the normal operation of whole production line in the alternation of when maintenance.
4, each deposition module structure of deposition section is identical, only relies on deposition process parameters and process gas to decide the different rete of deposition.Can be according to the different purposes of arbitrarily changing each deposition module of technical recipe, handiness is high.
5, the quantity of different film deposition modules can be mated according to the difference of depositing time; What depositing time was short can only need a row deposition module; The connected multiple row deposition module that depositing time is long; Make that each sediment chamber all is in the continuous firing state that do not rest in the deposition process, thereby improved overall throughput and production efficiency.
6, the automatic brake plate valve is housed in the deposition module between sediment chamber and vacuum transition chamber,, vacuum tightness can be provided with vacuum pressure reduction as requested between sediment chamber and the vacuum transition chamber, avoids crossed contamination, improves film quality.
7, the present invention has really realized robotization, and whole process need not to operate manually, has improved control accuracy, has practiced thrift production cost.
Description of drawings:
Fig. 1 is a structural representation of the present invention.
Fig. 2, Fig. 3 are the structural representation of the deposition module among the present invention.
Mark among the figure: heating zone (1); Automatic brake plate valve (2); Vacuum transition section 1 (3); Deposition section (4); Vacuum transition section 2 (5); Cooling section (6); Deposition module (7); Sediment chamber (7-1); RF power interface (7-1-1); Process gas interface (7-1-2); Negative plate (7-1-3); Positive plate (7-1-4); Positive plate ground connection (7-1-5); Fine motion cylinder (the control positive plate goes up and down) (7-1-6); Gas barrier interface (7-1-7); Vacuum transition chamber (7-2); Horizontal roller (7-2-1); Vertical roller (7-2-2); Fine motion cylinder (controlling vertical roller goes up and down) (7-2-3); Vacuum obtains device interface (7-2-4); Gas barrier (7-3); The dried pump of technology (7-3-1); Vacuum obtains device (7-4).
Embodiment:
Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing the present invention is further described:
A kind of automatic horizontal silicon substrate film producing device is characterized in that being made up of heating zone, vacuum transition section 1, deposition section, vacuum transition section 2, cooling section, and the automatic brake plate valve is loaded between each working spaces, and heating zone and cooling section are antivacuum section.
The deposition section is made up of at least two deposition module among the present invention; Each deposition module obtains device, air distributing device and gas barrier by sediment chamber, vacuum transition chamber, transmission mechanism, position-measurement device, vacuum and forms; The sediment chamber is distributed in the both sides of vacuum transition chamber; Each sediment chamber links to each other with a dried pump of technology respectively; The shared cover vacuum of sediment chamber and vacuum transition chamber obtains device, the deposition module two ends are equipped with coupling device, and the size and dimension of coupling device is identical or cooperatively interact; Through coupling device the deposition module that is arranged in parallel is coupled together the deposition section that forms a continuous coating, the quantity that this device can increase and decrease different film deposition modules according to the demands of different that coating process and production capacity design is mated.
Heating zone device of the present invention adopts the heating of continuous gradient heating means, but gradient substrate is heated to design temperature, this device is the highest can be with substrate even heating to 350 degree centigrade.
Plate valve rolls automatically with being equipped with between the vacuum transition chamber in the sediment chamber in the deposition module of the present invention, and vacuum tightness can be provided with vacuum pressure reduction as requested between sediment chamber and the vacuum transition chamber, avoids crossed contamination.
The quantity that deposits each film deposition module in the section among the present invention can be mated arrangement according to the difference of required time of depositional coating, to obtain optimum working efficiency.
Grating chi and fine motion cylinder are equipped with in the positive plate below in the sediment chamber of the present invention, can accurately control the positive plate adjustable height, and tolerance range can reach 10 microns.
Be provided with horizontal roller and vertical roller in the vacuum transition chamber in the deposition module of the present invention; Vertically roller is installed in the middle of the horizontal roller, and laterally the roller stationkeeping is constant, and vertically roller can bidirectional rolling; And vertically the roller below is equipped with the fine motion cylinder and can regulates up-down; When needs were fed forward substrate, vertically roller was in horizontal roller sustained height, and laterally roller work is fed forward substrate; When needs are delivered into the sediment chamber with substrate or from the sediment chamber substrate are exported, then rise vertical roller, the vertically reverse work of roller.
Sediment chamber and vacuum transition chamber have all been installed temperature survey and heating control apparatus in the deposition module of the present invention; Can make in the substrate transport process and keep constant temperature; When different retes need different temperature of reaction, also can accurately control the temperature of reaction of sediment chamber.
The deposition control of the transmission of substrate of the present invention and each rete etc. are all omnidistance to be controlled by computer automatically, need not any artificial manual operation.
As shown in Figure 1, device provided by the invention is made up of heating zone (1), vacuum transition section 1 (3), deposition section (4), vacuum transition section 2 (5), cooling section (6), and automatic brake plate valve (2) is loaded between each working spaces, and heating zone (1) and cooling section (6) are antivacuum section.The deposition section is made up of several deposition module.
As shown in Figure 2; Each deposition module obtains device (7-4), air distributing device and gas barrier (7-3) by sediment chamber (7-1), vacuum transition chamber (7-2), transmission mechanism, position-measurement device, vacuum and forms; Two sediment chambers (7-1) are arranged in the both sides of vacuum transition chamber (7-2) symmetrical or asymmetricly; Each sediment chamber links to each other with a dried pump of technology (7-3-1) respectively, and the shared cover vacuum of sediment chamber (7-1) and vacuum transition chamber (7-2) obtains device (7-4).Deposition module (7) two ends are equipped with the coupling device that size and dimension is identical or cooperatively interact; Through coupling device several deposition module that are arranged in parallel (7) are coupled together the deposition section (4) that forms a continuous coating; The quantity of the deposition used deposition module of each rete (7) can be mated arrangement according to the difference of required time of depositional coating in the technical recipe in the deposition section (4), to obtain optimum working efficiency.
Be provided with horizontal roller (7-2-1) and vertical roller (7-2-2) in the vacuum transition chamber (7-2), vertically roller (7-2-2) is installed in the middle of the horizontal roller (7-2-1).Laterally roller (7-2-1) stationkeeping is constant, and vertically roller (7-2-2) can bidirectional rolling, and vertically roller (7-2-2) below is equipped with the fine motion cylinder and can regulates up-down.When needs were fed forward substrate, vertically roller (7-2-2) was in horizontal roller (7-2-1) sustained height, laterally roller (7-2-1) work; When needs are delivered into the sediment chamber with substrate or from the sediment chamber substrate are exported, then rise vertical roller, the vertically reverse work of roller (7-2-2).Substrate is delivered into sediment chamber (7-1) and is on the positive plate (7-1-4), and positive plate (7-1-4) upwards rises certain altitude, the beginning deposition reaction.Grating chi and fine motion cylinder (7-1-6) are equipped with in positive plate (7-1-4) below, can accurately control positive plate (7-1-4) adjustable height, and tolerance range can reach 10 microns.After deposition finished, positive plate (7-1-4) descended and returns back to former height, and the automatic brake plate valve between sediment chamber (7-1) and the vacuum transition chamber (7-2) is opened, and vertically roller (7-2-2) work transfers out sediment chamber (7-1) with substrate.
Working process of the present invention is following:
Among the present invention; Said heating zone (1) is used for the clean substrate of gradient-heated pre-treatment; Heating zone (1) can be heated to design temperature (reaching as high as 350 degrees centigrade) with substrate according to processing requirement, and the substrate that is heated to design temperature then is sent to vacuum transition chamber 1 (3) through transmission mechanism, and automatic brake plate valve (2) cuts out; Heating zone (1) and vacuum transition section 1 (3) are kept apart, and heating zone (1) is antivacuum section.Substrate is delivered to the deposition section (4) from vacuum transition section 1 (3), in each deposition module, deposits each rete successively, after be transported in the cooling section (6) after the vacuum transition section 2 (5) and be cooled to room temperature.