Thin-film microcrystalline silicon solar cells

Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells

This chapter covers the current use and challenges of thin-film silicon solar cells, including conductivities and doping, the properties of microcrystalline …

Thin-film microcrystalline silicon solar cells: 11.9% efficiency …

High-efficiency thin-film hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon solar cells (µc-Si:H) were developed using a periodically textured substrate at a relatively high growth rate of ∼1 nm s−1. A record efficiency of 11.9% was independently confirmed in a µc-Si:H cell with an absorber thickness of approximately 2 µm. An improvement in fill factor …

Process and material challenges in the high rate deposition of ...

En anglais : High deposition rates on large areas are industrial needs for mass production of microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H) solar cells. This doctoral work aims at exploring the usefulness of Matrix Distributed Electron Cyclotron Resonance (MDECR) plasmas to process the intrinsic layer of μc-Si:H p-i-n solar cells at high rates. With the high …

Thin-film microcrystalline silicon solar cells: 11.9% efficiency and ...

A photoelectric conversion efficiency of over 10% has been achieved in thin-film microcrystalline silicon solar cells which consist of a 2 μm thick layer of …

Microcrystalline silicon carbide window layers in thin film silicon ...

DOI: 10.1016/J.SOLMAT.2011.11.039 Corpus ID: 97262283; Microcrystalline silicon carbide window layers in thin film silicon solar cells @article{Chen2012MicrocrystallineSC, title={Microcrystalline silicon carbide window layers in thin film silicon solar cells}, author={Tao Chen and Y. Huang and Arup …

A Comprehensive Survey of Silicon Thin-film Solar Cell ...

We refer to ultrathin solar cells as a 10-fold decrease in absorber thickness with respect to conventional solar cells, corresponding to thicknesses below …

Review: Progress in solar cells from hydrogenated amorphous silicon …

Thin-film solar cells are preferable for their cost-effective nature, least use of material, and an optimistic trend in the rise of efficiency. ... High-efficiency thin-film hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon solar cells (µc-Si:H) were developed using a periodically textured substrate at a relatively high growth rate of ∼1 nm s−1. A ...

Photovoltaic Technology: The Case for Thin-Film Solar …

Recent developments suggest that thin-film crystalline silicon (especially microcrystalline silicon) is becoming a prime candidate for future photovoltaics. The photovoltaic (PV) effect was discovered in …

Progress in thin-film silicon solar cells based on photonic-crystal ...

Subsequently, experimental evidence of this enhancement is demonstrated for a variety of thin-film Si solar cells: ∼500-nm-thick ultrathin …

N Type Microcrystalline Silicon Oxide Layer Effect in P-I-N Ultra-Thin …

Semiconductors have become the preferred material for processing, transfer and the storage of information [].Hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) based thin-film solar cells are very promising for large-area and low cost photovoltaic application [], unfortunately, they suffer appreciable light-induced degradation for thickness greater than 200 nm [].

Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon Solar Cells

Today many groups study HWCVD thin-film silicon and its alloys for various applications such as solar cells, passivation layers, and thin-film transistors. This chapter discusses the basic operation of a basic thin-film silicon solar cell and then presents the thin-film structure and technology.

Relationship between the cell thickness and the optimum period …

Periodically textured back reflectors with hexagonal dimple arrays are applied to thin-film microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H) solar cells. When the textures have a moderate aspect ratio, the optimum period for obtaining a high short circuit current density (JSC ) is found to be equal to or slightly larger than the cell thickness. If the cell …

Influence of Raman crystallinity on the performance of micromorph thin …

The performance of micromorph silicon tandem solar cells deposited by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) at 40 MHz was investigated in a large area industrially employed reactor as a function of the crystalline fraction of the microcrystalline bottom cell.The relevant plasma parameters frequency, pressure, …

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

1. Introduction. Silicon thin film solar cells have gained a lot of attention due to their low cost and large-area fabrication potential. Recently, multi-junction structures with different band gaps such as micromorph tandem cells consisting of an amorphous (a-Si) top cell and a microcrystalline (μc-Si:H) bottom cell have been produced and …

Relationship between the cell thickness and the optimum period …

Periodically textured back reflectors with hexagonal dimple arrays are applied to thin-film microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H) solar cells. When the textures have a moderate aspect ratio, the optimum period for obtaining a high short circuit current density (J SC) is found to be equal to or slightly larger than the cell thickness.If the cell thickness …

Effect of reducing impurity concentration of microcrystalline silicon ...

Semantic Scholar extracted view of "Effect of reducing impurity concentration of microcrystalline silicon thin films for solar cells using radio frequency hollow electrode enhanced glow plasma" by Toshihiro Tabuchi et al. ... {Effect of reducing impurity concentration of microcrystalline silicon thin films for solar cells using radio …

N-type Microcrystalline Silicon Oxide (μc-SiOx:H) Window

We will describe the development and application of n-type microcrystalline silicon oxide (μc-SiOx:H) alloys as window layers in thin film silicon solar cells with microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H) absorber layers. Cells are prepared in n–i–p deposition sequence with illumination through the n-side. The layers were …

Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells

This chapter covers the current use and challenges of thin-film silicon solar cells, including conductivities and doping, the properties of microcrystalline silicon (the role of the internal electric field, shunts, series resistance problems, light trapping), tandem and multijunction solar cells (a-Si:H/a-Si:H tandems, triple-junction amorphous …

Microcrystalline silicon carbide window layers in thin film silicon ...

Highlights Silicon thin film solar cells with highly transparent n-type μc-SiC:H window layer were studied. Structure of μc-Si:H absorber layer deposited on μc-SiC:H window layer was investigated. A thin seed layer of intrinsic μc-SiC:H is found to be necessary at the SiC/Si interface. Solar cells were optimized in terms of both seed layer …

Microcrystalline Silicon-Germanium Alloys for Absorption Layers in Thin ...

Thin microcrystalline silicon-germanium films (μ-Si l.x Ge x :H) prepared by PECVD at 95 MHz have been investigated. The optical absorption of these films increases in the infrared spectral region with increasing germanium content. In addition to the shift of the indirect gap an increase of the absorption coefficient above the band edge is observed. The material …

Microcrystalline Silicon

Another approach to thin-film Si solar cells with higher stabilized efficiencies as compared to those attainable from a-Si:H, is to use microcrystalline silicon (μ c-Si) also frequently dubbed as "nanocrystalline Si" in recent publications. This material consists of regions of crystalline Si immersed in an amorphous matrix.

A Review on Progress of Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon Thin ...

This paper describes the continuous progress of amorphous (a-Si:H) and microcrystalline (μc-Si:H) silicon based thin film solar cells and discusses its present scenarios based on patents and open ...

Status and perspectives of crystalline silicon photovoltaics in ...

Current high-efficiency silicon solar cells combine a thin silicon oxide layer with positive charges with a layer of SiN x:H for n-type Si or with negative charges with a layer of Al 2 O 3 for p ...

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