Performance limitations of mc-Si solar cells caused by defect clusters : preprint / B. Sopori [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sopori, Bhushan Lal

Contributor:

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)

Series:

Conference paper (National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)) ; 520-45012.

Conference paper NREL/CP ; 520-45012

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Solar cells--Defects.

Solar cells.

Photovoltaic cells--Research.

Photovoltaic cells.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (10 pages)

Place of Publication:

Golden, CO : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, [2009]

Summary:

Multicrystalline silicon wafers used for solar cells exhibit defect clusters--localized crystal defects in and near grains of some specific orientations. Defect clusters are also dominant sites for impurity precipitation, and they remain ungettered and unpassivated through the solar cell processing. This paper describes characteristics of defect clusters, and shows, through theory and experiment, that defect clusters typically lower cell efficiency by 3 to 4 absolute percentage points. To recover this efficiency loss, it is necessary to getter precipitated impurities.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed April 2009).

"February 2009."

"To be presented at Semicon China 2009, Shanghai, China, March 17-19, 2009."

OCLC:

317626727