History of the amorphous silicon on crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cell

Effect of Silicon Nanowire on Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell Characteristics

Nanowires (NWs) are recently used in several sensor or actuator devices to improve their ordered characteristics. Silicon nanowire (Si NW) is one of the most attractive one-dimensional nanostructures semiconductors because of its unique electrical and optical properties. In this paper, silicon nanowire (Si NW), is synthesized and characterized for application in photovoltaic device. Si NWs are ...

Amorphous silicon on p-type crystalline silicon heterojunction

2014 A junction was grown by d.c. sputtering of n-type silicon on a p-type crystalline substrate. Ohmic contacts were deposited by evaporation of aluminum. The junction obeyed Schottky model both under forward and reverse bias conditions, but with higher idealization factor « n » due to its high internal resistance. The 1/C2-V relation showed the presence of localized and interface states. The ...

Analysis of lateral transport through the inversion layer in amorphous silicon/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells

In amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells, an inversion layer is present at the front interface. By combining numerical simulations and experiments, we examine the contribution of the inversion layer to lateral transport and assess whether this layer can be exploited to replace the front transparent conductive oxide (TCO) in devices. For this, heterojunction solar cells of dif...

Amorphous silicon carbide passivating layers for crystalline-silicon-based heterojunction solar cells

Quantum Efficiency Modeling of Amorphous/Crystalline Silicon Heterojunction Photovoltaic Devices

Amorphous/crystalline silicon (a-Si/c-Si) heterojunctions are of particular importance in photovoltaic (PV) energy conversion in a cost-effective way. This is principally due to the low temperature (low-T) nature of the process. In this work, we have analyzed a (n)a-Si/(i)a-Si/(p)cSi heterojunction solar cell structure using theoretical models for internal quantum yield (IQY) and I-V behavior. ...