Title
Liquid phase crystallized silicon solar cells on glass: Material quality and device design
Date Issued
14 December 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Institute for Silicon-Photovoltaics
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Liquid phase crystallization (LPC) has proven to be a suitable method to grow large-grained silicon films on commercially well available glass substrates. Zone-melting crystallization with high energy density line sources such as lasers or electron beams enabled polycrystalline grain growth with wafer equivalent morphology. A lot of effort was put into interlayer optimization by different groups. Open circuit voltages above 630 mV and efficiencies up to 11.8% were demonstrated using n-type absorbers on a sputtered interlayer between glass substrate and silicon absorber comprising a triple stack of SiO2/SiNx/SiO2. In this work we report on our results to further improve device performance by investigating the influence of the interlayer on the open circuit voltage of the devices and demonstrate first results achieved on an interdigitated back contacted silicon heterojunction solar cell to simplify device fabrication.
Number
7356216
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de materiales
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84961615462
ISBN of the container
978-147997944-8
Conference
2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015
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