학술논문

HW-CVD deposited μc-Si:H for the inverted heterojunction solar cell
Document Type
Conference
Source
2010 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2010 35th IEEE. :001450-001455 Jun, 2010
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Photonics and Electrooptics
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Substrates
Optical surface waves
Surface treatment
Artificial intelligence
Optical buffering
Optical films
Language
ISSN
0160-8371
Abstract
P-type-microcrystalline-silicon / n-type-crystalline-silicon hetero-junction solar cell has been prepared by means of hot-wire chemical vapor deposition (HW-CVD) technique. The solar cell structure was illuminated on the opposite side of the normally-formed heterojunction. With this inverted structure, the photovoltaic cell has the design potential to improve the light-incident surface-texturing with the possibility to avoid the use of transparent conducting oxide (TCO). Solar cells were fabricated on Czochralsky (CZ)-grown phosphorous-doped crystalline-silicon (c-Si) substrates within 0.5 to 1 ohm-cm. HW-CVD has employed for the deposition of a very thin intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon (i-a-Si) as a buffer-layer as a heterojunction interface, and boron-doped hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon (p-μc-Si) on c-Si substrate. The tungsten catalyst temperature (T fil ) was settled to 1600 °C and 1950 °C for i-a-Si and p-μc-Si films, respectively. Silane (SiH 4 ), hydrogen (H 2 ) and diluted diborane (B 2 H 6 ) gases were used for p-μc-Si at the substrate temperatures (T sub ) of 200 °C. The obtained I–V characteristics under simulated solar radiation at 100mW/cm 2 are: Jsc =26.1 mA/cm 2 ; Voc = 545 mV; Jm = 21.4 mA/cm 2 ; Vm = 410 mV; FF = 61.7%, with total area efficiency of η= 8.8%. The solar cell has great potential to improve its conversion efficiency with proper surface passivation and antireflection coat.