Crystalline Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells with Metal Oxide Window Layers
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Ore, E
Amaratunga, Gehan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8614-2864
Abstract
© 2019 IEEE. For the crystalline silicon (c-Si) heterojunction (HJ) solar cell with the conventional structure, the parasitic absorbance in the window contact layer (WCL) of p-type doped thin film silicon or its alloy (pDTF-Si/A) limits the amount of the short circuit current density (Jsc) generated. In this work, pDTFSi/A is replaced with a transition metal oxide (TMO) of MoOx, WOx, TiOx, NiOx, Cu2Ox. Due to the wide band gaps of TMO materials, the c-Si HJ cells with TMO WCLs have higher Jsc than the conventional c-Si HJ cell under AM1.5 irradiation. The values of the excess charge carrier lifetime and the implied open circuit voltage indicate that WOx provides the best passivation for c-Si.
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heterojunction, silicon, solar cell, transition metal oxide
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Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
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2019 IEEE 46th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC)
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0160-8371
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IEEE
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Yunnan Normal University (unknown)