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JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 3561-3563Publisher
AMER SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2014.7887
Keywords
c-Si Solar Cell; UV Exposure; Performance Degradation; I-V; C-V
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- Human Resources Development program of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) [2012 4010203280]
- Korea government Ministry of Knowledge Economy
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Current Voltage (I-V) and Capacitance-Voltage (C-V) characteristics of crystalline silicon solar cells were obtained under UV exposure. The solar cell parameters degraded with increasing exposure time. For example, open-circuit voltage (V-oc), short-circuit current (J(sc)), fill-factor (FF) and efficiency (eta) were degraded. In this study, solar cell did not degrade at the p-n junction or silicon substrate effective lifetime by UltraViolet (UV) light exposure. The main degradation occurred at the SiNx layer, the commonly used anti-reflection coating (ARC), due to the positive charges generated by the high-energy UV light source. UV light changed the characteristics of the SiNx layer and the Si/SiNx interface to degrade the cell efficiency.
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