Silicon wafer material options for highly efficient p-type PERC solar cells

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Autoren

  • Thorsten Dullweber
  • Christopher Kranz
  • Ulrike Baumann
  • Rene Hesse
  • Dominic Walter
  • Jan Schmidt
  • Pietro Altermatt
  • Rolf Brendel

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  • Institut für Solarenergieforschung GmbH (ISFH)
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel des Sammelwerks39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2013
Herausgeber (Verlag)Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Seiten3074-3078
Seitenumfang5
ISBN (Print)9781479932993
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 20 Feb. 2014
Veranstaltung39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2013 - Tampa, FL, USA / Vereinigte Staaten
Dauer: 16 Juni 201321 Juni 2013

Publikationsreihe

NameConference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
ISSN (Print)0160-8371

Abstract

PERC solar cells targeted for industrial mass production mainly apply p-type boron-doped silicon wafers. However, boron-doped wafers are subject to light-induced degradation which can decrease the efficiency during solar cell operation. In this paper, we evaluate Cz and monolike silicon wafer materials with different resistivity and oxygen concentration and their application to high-efficiency PERC solar cells. Test wafer results show that both, lower oxygen concentrations as well as higher resistivity increase the carrier lifetime post LID from 105 μs up to 564 μs. PERC solar cells processed with these wafers achieve efficiencies between 19.9% and 20.2%. The light-induced degradation of the efficiency is reduced from 0.47%abs. for the standard 2 ωcm Cz to around 0.3%abs. for 5 ωcm Cz wafers and low oxygen MCz wafers. The lowest efficiency degradation of 0.17%abs. is obtained for the monolike wafers. The experimental results are in good accordance with 2-dimensional simulations using Sentaurus device taking into account the measured injection dependent minority carrier lifetimes.

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Silicon wafer material options for highly efficient p-type PERC solar cells. / Dullweber, Thorsten; Kranz, Christopher; Baumann, Ulrike et al.
39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2013. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. S. 3074-3078 6745110 (Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference).

Publikation: Beitrag in Buch/Bericht/Sammelwerk/KonferenzbandAufsatz in KonferenzbandForschungPeer-Review

Dullweber, T, Kranz, C, Baumann, U, Hesse, R, Walter, D, Schmidt, J, Altermatt, P & Brendel, R 2014, Silicon wafer material options for highly efficient p-type PERC solar cells. in 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2013., 6745110, Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., S. 3074-3078, 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2013, Tampa, FL, USA / Vereinigte Staaten, 16 Juni 2013. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2013.6745110
Dullweber, T., Kranz, C., Baumann, U., Hesse, R., Walter, D., Schmidt, J., Altermatt, P., & Brendel, R. (2014). Silicon wafer material options for highly efficient p-type PERC solar cells. In 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2013 (S. 3074-3078). Artikel 6745110 (Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2013.6745110
Dullweber T, Kranz C, Baumann U, Hesse R, Walter D, Schmidt J et al. Silicon wafer material options for highly efficient p-type PERC solar cells. in 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2013. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2014. S. 3074-3078. 6745110. (Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference). doi: 10.1109/PVSC.2013.6745110
Dullweber, Thorsten ; Kranz, Christopher ; Baumann, Ulrike et al. / Silicon wafer material options for highly efficient p-type PERC solar cells. 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2013. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. S. 3074-3078 (Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference).
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