3-D simulation of interdigitated-back-contact silicon solar cells with quokka including perimeter losses

A Fell, KC Fong, KR McIntosh… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An interdigitated-back-contact (IBC) version of Quokka, a recently developed free and fast
solar cell simulation program, is presented. It is capable of simulating IBC unit cells with a …

Polyimide for silicon solar cells with double-sided textured pyramids

N Zin, K McIntosh, S Bakhshi… - Solar energy materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Silicon solar cells incorporating double-sided pyramidal texture are capable of superior light
trap** over cells with front-side only texture. However, increased surface area, roughness …

Characterizing amorphous silicon, silicon nitride, and diffused layers in crystalline siliconsolarcellsusingmicro-photoluminescence spectroscopy

HT Nguyen, FE Rougieux, D Yan, Y Wan… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2016 - Elsevier
We report and explain the photoluminescence (PL) spectra from crystalline silicon (c-Si)
wafers passivated by hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) films under various …

Rounded rear pyramidal texture for high efficiency silicon solar cells

N Zin, K McIntosh, T Kho, E Franklin… - 2016 IEEE 43rd …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interdigitated back-contact (IBC) solar cells developed in the past two years have
efficiencies in the range 24.4%-25.6% As high as these efficiencies are, there are …

“Cold” process for IBC c-Si solar cells fabrication

G López, PR Ortega, I Martín, C Voz, A Orpella… - Energy Procedia, 2016 - Elsevier
In this work we have developed an innovative fabrication process of n-type interdigitated
back contact (IBC) c-Silicon solar cells. The main feature is that all the highly-doped regions …

Recombination-free reactive ion etch for high efficiency silicon solar cells

N Zin - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2017 - Elsevier
Carrier lifetime degradation of reactive ion etch-processed silicon samples are investigated.
Two types of carrier recombination: reversible and irreversible degradations induced by …

A simplified process flow for silicon heterojunction interdigitated back contact solar cells: Using shadow masks and tunnel junctions

SY Herasimenka, CJ Tracy… - 2014 IEEE 40th …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel process flow, which can allow the formation of interdigitated p-and n-type a-Si strips
and corresponding transparent conductive oxide (TCO) and metal layers for silicon …

Laser induced defects in silicon solar cells and laser annealing

Z Sun, MC Gupta - 2016 IEEE 43rd Photovoltaic Specialists …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High power lasers are attractive for low-cost solar cell fabrication. However, laser process
can generate crystal lattice defects that would decrease the photovoltaic efficiency. This …

Long-term and annealing stable, solderable PVD metallization with optimized Al diffusion barrier

J Kumm, RV Chacko, H Samadi, P Hartmann… - Energy Procedia, 2015 - Elsevier
Since passivated emitter and rear cells (PERC) and other silicon solar cell concepts with
evaporated aluminum (Al) as rear metallization are incompatible with a common solder …

Base contacts and selective emitters processed by laser do** technique for p-type IBC c-Si solar cells

G López, PR Ortega, I Martín, C Voz, AB Morales… - Energy Procedia, 2015 - Elsevier
In this work, we describe a novel fabrication process of p-type interdigitated back contact
(IBC) silicon solar developed by means of laser do** and laser firing techniques. We use …