Title
Influence of the precursor layer composition and deposition processes on the electronic quality of liquid phase crystallized silicon absorbers
Date Issued
01 August 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Institute for Silicon Photovoltaics/Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH
Publisher(s)
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Abstract
Liquid phase crystallization using line-shaped energy sources such as CW-diode lasers or electron beams has proven to form mc-Si layers on borosilicate or borosilicate/aluminosilicate glass that exhibit wafer equivalent grain sizes and electronic quality. In this work, we characterize the impact of the employed dielectric interlayer stack sandwiched between glass and absorber on the electronic quality. For this purpose, we investigate a large variety of test cell results achieved in the past on different interlayer stacks composed of silicon oxide, silicon nitride as well as silicon oxynitride deposited by means of plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition or plasma oxidation and employ i(v), SunsVoc, quantum efficiency measurements, and photoluminescence imaging to assess the electronic properties of the crystallized absorbers. The results are compared with state-of the art interdigitated back-contact cells and literature values. Based on these findings, we conclude that at the present state of interlayer, the bulk quality imposes the limits in cell efficiency and investigates potential approaches to increase the bulk quality of LPC-Si absorbers.
Start page
524
End page
532
Volume
26
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de materiales
DOI
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85034017874
Source
Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications
ISSN of the container
10627995
Sponsor(s)
The authors would like to thank M. Muske, K. Jacob, M. Wittig, M. Zelt, K. Mack, and T. Hänel for their help during sample preparation and help with characterization. We express our gratitude to Daniel Abou‐ Ras for discussions about crystallographic defects and critically reading of the manuscript. Parts of this work were funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Union and the State of North Rhine‐Westphalia (Grant# EFRE‐0800580 / EU‐1‐2‐ 037C).
European Commission
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