Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4926809
Title: Three-dimensional numerical analysis of hybrid heterojunction silicon wafer solar cells with heterojunction rear point contacts
Authors: Ling Z.P. 
Duttagupta S. 
Ma F. 
Mueller T. 
Aberle A.G. 
Stangl R. 
Keywords: Electric resistance
Heterojunctions
Numerical analysis
Point contacts
Silicon
Silicon wafers
Solar cells
Back surface fields
Heterojunction solar cells
Intensity-dependent
Lifetime measurements
Series resistances
Silicon wafer solar cells
Simulation program
Three-dimensional numerical analysis
Silicon solar cells
Issue Date: 2015
Citation: Ling Z.P., Duttagupta S., Ma F., Mueller T., Aberle A.G., Stangl R. (2015). Three-dimensional numerical analysis of hybrid heterojunction silicon wafer solar cells with heterojunction rear point contacts. AIP Advances 5 (7) : 77124. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4926809
Abstract: This paper presents a three-dimensional numerical analysis of homojunction/heterojunction hybrid silicon wafer solar cells, featuring front-side full-area diffused homojunction contacts and rear-side heterojunction point contacts. Their device performance is compared with conventional full-area heterojunction solar cells as well as conventional diffused solar cells featuring locally diffused rear point contacts, for both front-emitter and rear-emitter configurations. A consistent set of simulation input parameters is obtained by calibrating the simulation program with intensity dependent lifetime measurements of the passivated regions and the contact regions of the various types of solar cells. We show that the best efficiency is obtained when a-Si:H is used for rear-side heterojunction point-contact formation. An optimization of the rear contact area fraction is required to balance between the gains in current and voltage and the loss in fill factor with shrinking rear contact area fraction. However, the corresponding optimal range for the rear-contact area fraction is found to be quite large (e.g. 20-60 % for hybrid front-emitter cells). Hybrid rear-emitter cells show a faster drop in the fill factor with decreasing rear contact area fraction compared to front-emitter cells, stemming from a higher series resistance contribution of the rear-side a-Si:H(p+) emitter compared to the rear-side a-Si:H(n+) back surface field layer. Overall, we show that hybrid silicon solar cells in a front-emitter configuration can outperform conventional heterojunction silicon solar cells as well as diffused solar cells with rear-side locally diffused point contacts. © 2015 Author(s).
Source Title: AIP Advances
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/174636
ISSN: 2158-3226
DOI: 10.1063/1.4926809
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