High-efficiency Silicon Solar Cells: A Review

Over the past few decades, crystalline silicon solar cells have been extensively studied due to their high efficiency, high reliability, and low cost. In addition, these types of cells lead the industry and account for more than half of the market. For the foreseeable future, Si will still be a critical material for photovoltaic devices in the solar cell industry. In this paper, we discuss key issues, cell concepts, and the status of recent high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells.     

Fabrication and Characterization of Solar Cells Based on Silicon Nanowire Homojunctions

Silicon nanowire homojunction p-n solar cells were fabricated using Zn and Au metals as catalysts for growing the NWs. This design consisted of SiNWs, doped as p and n-types, catalyzed with Zn and Au catalysts to fabricate p-n homojunctions within each wire. The surface morphology, structure, and photovoltaic properties were investigated. The morphology for each of the catalyzed SiNWs was significantly different; the Zn catalyst produced short and thick NWs with diameters ranging from 190nm to 260nm, whereas the Au catalyst produced long SiNWs with diameters ranging from 140nm to 210nm. The Zn-catalyzed SiNW p-n solar cell showed a higher efficiency of 1.01 % compared with the Au-catalyzed SiNW p-n solar cell with an efficiency of 0.67 %.     

Simulation and Optimization of Back Surface Field for Efficient HIT Solar Cells

Silicon - We investigate an appropriate material for the optimisation of Back Surface Field (BSF) layer in Heterojunction with Intrinsic thin layer (HIT) solar cells:...     

超小绒面硅基太阳能电池电学性能的数学模拟分析

在充分考虑纳米柱结构太阳能电池的几何特性与低反射率特性的基础上,建立了硅基纳米柱太阳能电池的数学模型,分析了电池单元纳米柱的长度、硅衬底缺陷密度以及表面空穴的复合速率对纳米柱太阳能电池的开路电压、短路电流以及转换效率的影响。结果表明：在纳米柱电池设计制作过程中,低反射率仅是高性能电池的关键因素之一;电池纳米柱的最佳长度...     

Intrinsic Sub-Nanocrystalline Silicon Thin Films: Active Layer for Solar Cells

Silicon - The study presents the typical aspects of silicon thin films in terms of growth under variation of applied power using Radio frequency Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition technique...     

Effects of Solar Concentration on Efficiency for Vertical Multijunction Silicon Solar Cells

Silicon - In this work, we have analyzed the characteristic J-V of vertical multijunction solar cells. We have also offered a design of a monolithic compact solar module with cells electrically...     

金颗粒掺杂对有机-硅光伏电池性能的影响

将金纳米颗粒(Au NPs)掺入导电聚合物聚3,4-乙烯二氧噻吩∶聚苯乙烯磺酸(PEDOT∶PSS)薄膜中,制备了有机-硅杂化光伏电池。利用TEM和SEM对Au NPs及其掺杂的有机膜进行了表征。考察了金纳米颗粒对有机-硅杂化光伏电池光学和电学性能的影响。电池的电流密度-电压曲线(J-V)、外量子效率(EQE)和电容-电压曲线(C-V)测试结果表明,Au NPs的引入提高了电池的光电性能,与纯PEDOT∶PSS-硅电池相比,掺入金纳米颗粒制备的杂化光伏电池的光电转化效率(PCE)提高了24%,达到12.87%;在金纳米颗粒的等离子共振区域,电池对光的反射性能降低;当V(金纳米颗粒)∶V(PEDOT∶PSS)=0.15∶1.0时,膜的导电率由560 S/cm增加到860S/cm、PEDOT∶PSS-硅光伏电池的内建电场(Vbi)由0.68 V增加到0.78 V,金纳米颗粒与PEDOT∶PSS共同作用,极大地减少了电荷在传输过程中的损失,提高了电池中电荷的传输和收集效率。     

不同吸收层结构的非晶硅/锗太阳能电池转换效率的模拟计算(英文)

设计了2种太阳能电池结构：结构A为a-Si：H/a-Si0.65Ge0.35：H多吸收层结构;结构B为a-Si0.65Ge0.35：H单吸收层结构。采用AMPS-ID程序分析了2种电池结构的光电性质。模拟计算中光学吸收系数和缺陷浓度均采用实验数据以便确保模拟的可靠性。分析了2种电池结构的短路电流密度、断路电压、填充因子和转换效率。结果表明：对于结构A,当吸收层厚度达180nm时,转换效率达到饱和值6.88%;对于结构B,当吸收层厚度达45nm时,转换效率达到最大值3.44%;利用载流子产生和复合机制分析了采用多吸收层结构更有利于提高太阳能电池的转换效率。     

晶体硅太阳电池焊接工艺研究

晶体硅太阳电池主栅与焊带之间的连接性能直接影响光伏组件的光电转化效率和使用寿命。研究了不同焊接温度和时间对焊接质量的影响,结果表明,焊接温度380℃、焊接时间3 s时,焊接后电池主栅与焊带的连接性能最佳。     

Recent Progress of Innovative Perovskite Hybrid Solar Cells

Recently, innovative perovskite hybrid solar cells have attracted great interest in solar cell research fields, such as dye-sensitized solar cells, organic photovoltaics, thin-film solar cells, and silicon solar cells, because their device efficiencies are gradually approaching those of crystalline Si solar cells, and they can be fabricated by cheap low-temperature solution processes. Here, we review the recent progress of innovative perovskite hybrid solar cells. The introduction includes the general concerns about solar cells and why we need innovative solar cells. The second part explains the structure and the material properties of hybrid perovskite materials. We focus on why the hybrid perovskite materials can exhibit excellent solar cell properties, such as high open-circuit voltage. The third part introduces recent progress in innovative perovskite hybrid solar cells, in terms of device architecture and deposition methods for dense perovskite thin films with full surface coverage. The device architecture is important in attaining high power conversion efficiency; the device operating mechanism is dependent on the device structure; and the pinhole-free dense perovskite thin films with full surface coverage are crucial for achieving high efficiency. Finally, we summarize the recent progress in perovskite hybrid solar cells, and the issues to be solved, in the summary and outlook section.     

Numerical Investigation of Perovskite and u-CIGS Based Tandem Solar Cells Using Silvaco TCAD Simulation

Silicon - In this paper, a numerical model is designed to evaluate the performances of a two-terminal tandem Perovskite-CIGS solar cell. Tandem perovskite solar cells (TPSCs) are a type of device...     

Aluminum Nanoparticles Passivation of Multi-Crystalline Silicon Nanostructure for Solar Cells Applications

Silicon - In this paper, we demonstrated that aluminum films deposited on the front surface of multi-crystalline silicon (mc-Si) provide excellent surface passivation and high electronic quality of...     

多晶硅尾气回收精馏工序模拟优化

针对改良西门子法中尾气回收精馏工序的节能要求,用过程模拟软件Aspen Plus对流程进行模拟优化。首先,通过SiHCl3-SiCl4物系汽液平衡实验数据与用不同热力学模型模拟出的汽液平衡数据比较,然后将Aspen软件模拟出的进料物流的热容值与实际计算的热容值进行比较,筛选出了能最佳描述本体系热力学性质的热力学模型RK-Soave,建立了热力学模型;其次,将用Aspen软件模拟得出的进料物流的纯组分密度与查阅文献计算得到的密度进行比较,考查了所选热力学方程的可靠性。对多晶硅尾气回收段的精馏工序进行模拟优化,得出各塔的最优参数。     

Boron Induced Crystallization of Silicon on Glass: an Alternate Way to Crystallize Amorphous Silicon Films for Solar Cells

Silicon - Demand for efficient window layer in thin film solar cells with high crystallinity is ever increasing that finds important application in multi-junction/tandem silicon solar cells. Doping...     

硅纳米材料简介及硅纳米线的现代合成方法

简要介绍了纳米材料、硅纳米材料的起源、发展,着重按硅纳米线的生长机理概括了5种合成方法:气-液-固生长法、有机溶液生长法、氧化物辅助生长法、分子束取向附生法、固-液-固生长法.     

Extraction and Analysis of Recovered Silver and Silicon from Laboratory Grade Waste Solar Cells

Silicon - In the present work, a new process is reported to recover metallic contacts and wafer from the crystalline silicon solar cell through chemical etching. 2 M KOH was used as an...     

Solar Cells Fabricated in Upgraded Metallurgical Silicon,Obtained Through Vacuum Degassing and Czochralski Growth

Silicon - Upgraded metallurgical grade silicon (UMG-Si) was obtained through metallurgical methods using two steps. First, metallurgical grade silicon was purified by the vacuum degassing technique...     

Effect of Silicon Wafer Resistivity on Morphology and Wettability of Silicon Nanowires Arrays

Silicon - Herein, we prepare vertical and single crystalline silicon nanowires (SiNWs) via a one-step metal-assisted chemical etching method in aqueous NH4HF2/AgNO3 solution. The effects of silicon...     

The Passivation Characteristics of Poly-Si/SiOx Stack for High-Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells

Silicon - The Poly-Si/SiOx stack passivation structure incorporate doped polycrystalline silicon (Poly-Si) and tunneling silicon oxide (SiOx) thin films allows for majority-carrier transport as...     

μcSi(n)/cSi(p)异质结太阳电池微晶硅背场的模拟与优化

采用AFORSHET软件模拟了微晶硅背场对μcsi(n)/csi(p)异质结太阳电池性能的影响。结果显示:微晶硅背场的厚度对电池性能影响较小;而随着背场掺杂浓度的提高,短路电流和填充因子都逐渐提高,太阳电池效率随之增大;随着带隙的增大,短路电流和效率均是先增大,当带隙超过1.55ev时逐渐变小。当微晶硅背场的厚度为10nm,掺杂浓度为3×1018/cm3,带隙为1.55ev时,太阳电池的转化效率最高,达到21.8%。