Journal
PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI A-APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 219, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.202100511
Keywords
chemical passivation; crystallization rate indexes; electron temperature indexes; silicon heterojunction solar cells; surface passivation
Funding
- Projekt DEAL
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Applying chemical passivation techniques known for n-type technology on p-type float-zone wafers can achieve excellent surface passivation and improve the efficiency of p-type silicon heterojunction technology.
To increase the efficiency in p-type wafer-based silicon heterojunction (SHJ) technology, one of the most crucial challenges is the achievement of excellent surface passivation. Herein, chemical passivation techniques known for n-type technology are successfully applied on p-type float-zone (FZ) wafers, and wafer surface passivation quality is correlated with parameters from plasma diagnostics, namely crystallization rate and electron temperature indices. It is shown that plasma ignition at higher powers than deposition powers enhances effective minority carrier lifetimes tau(eff) fourfold for p- (0.6-2.1 ms) and sixfold for n-type (0.6-3.2 ms) wafers while giving opportunity to process under lower electron temperature indices during the nucleation phase. A subsequent hydrogen plasma treatment has a further beneficial effect on chemical passivation, leading to high effective minority carrier lifetimes of 4.5 and 3.1 ms, and implies open-circuit voltages, i-V-OC, of 735 and 720 mV for p- and n-type wafers, respectively. In particular, cell precursors built on p-type wafers demonstrate excellent surface passivation with tau(eff) and i-V-OC (4.1 ms and 745 mV). Using these process optimizations, SHJ cells on both p- and n-type wafers are fabricated with efficiencies exceeding 21%.
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