Journal
SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS
Volume 173, Issue -, Pages 85-91Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2017.05.055
Keywords
Passivating contact; Polysilicon; Gettering; Silicon solar cell
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- German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) [0325827C]
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Carrier-selective contact schemes, like polysilicon on oxide (POLO), provide low contact resistivities while preserving an excellent passivation quality. These junctions offer an important additional feature compared to a-Si/c-Si We find that the formation of n-type POLO junctions lead to a huge increase of the Shockley-Read-Hall (SRH) lifetime of the substrate, a prerequisite for highly efficient solar cells. The SRH lifetime improvement can be observed for both bulk polarities and for a variety of bulk resistivities. Thus we suggest that the highly doped POLO junction getters impurities that have more or less symmetric SRH capture cross sections. We are able to achieve SRH lifetimes of > 50 ms. By applying POLO junctions to interdigitated back contact cells, we achieve cells with an efficiency of 25%.
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