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SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS
Volume 74, Issue 1-4, Pages 25-33Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S0927-0248(02)00044-2
Keywords
solar cells; high efficiency; Czochralski silicon; Ga doping; MIS contacts; OECO technology; oblique evaporation; Si nitride
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To improve the economy of photovoltaics, efficiencies of solar cells have to be drastically increased without using complex technologies. This work demonstrates that with the obliquely evaporated contact metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS)-n(+)p solar cell structure recently developed at ISFH efficiencies exceeding 21% can be obtained using only four simple fabrication steps: (i) mechanical surface grooving, (ii) P-diffusion, (iii) oblique vacuum evaporation of Al, and (iv) plasma silicon nitride deposition. Cell design and processing sequences are outlined together with the importance of MIS contacts as both low-cost and high efficiency features. The custom-made pilot line equipment for mass production of 20% efficient 10 x 10 cm(2) Cz silicon solar cells including Ga doped wafers is described. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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