Journal
IEEE JOURNAL OF PHOTOVOLTAICS
Volume 4, Issue 6, Pages 1326-1330Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2014.2344768
Keywords
Amorphous silicon carbide; emitter; heterojunction silicon solar cell
Funding
- Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands
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In this paper, the electrical and optical properties of p-type hydrogenated amorphous silicon carbide (a-SiC:H) are compared with p-type hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) widely used as emitter material of silicon heterojunction solar cells. The difference in solar-cell performance of the two emitters shows that p-type a-SiC:H emitter is able to enhance the short-circuit current density (J(sc)) by reducing the parasitic absorption loss and reflection loss without degrading the electrical performance of devices. The application of the p-type a-SiC:H emitter can lead to a Jsc increase of about 1 mA/cm(2), compared with the p-type a-Si:H emitter. Our silicon heterojunction solar cell with p-type a-SiC:H emitter shows an active-area efficiency of 20.8% and the short-circuit current density of 40.3 mA/cm(2).
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