| Title |
Fabrication of 20.19% Efficient Single-Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell with Inverted Pyramid Microstructure
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Discover Nano, April 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s11671-018-2502-9 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Chunyang Zhang, Lingzhi Chen, Yingjie Zhu, Zisheng Guan |
| Abstract |
This paper reports inverted pyramid microstructure-based single-crystalline silicon (sc-Si) solar cell with a conversion efficiency up to 20.19% in standard size of 156.75 × 156.75 mm2. The inverted pyramid microstructures were fabricated jointly by metal-assisted chemical etching process (MACE) with ultra-low concentration of silver ions and optimized alkaline anisotropic texturing process. And the inverted pyramid sizes were controlled by changing the parameters in both MACE and alkaline anisotropic texturing. Regarding passivation efficiency, the textured sc-Si with normal reflectivity of 9.2% and inverted pyramid size of 1 μm was used to fabricate solar cells. The best batch of solar cells showed a 0.19% higher of conversion efficiency and a 0.22 mA cm-2 improvement in short-circuit current density, and the excellent photoelectric property surpasses that of the same structure solar cell reported before. This technology shows great potential to be an alternative for large-scale production of high efficient sc-Si solar cells in the future. |
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| India | 4 | 17% |
| Saudi Arabia | 2 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |
| Mexico | 1 | 4% |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 1 | 4% |
| Chile | 1 | 4% |
| Spain | 1 | 4% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 4% |
| France | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 10 | 42% |
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| Members of the public | 18 | 75% |
| Scientists | 4 | 17% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 8% |
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| Unknown | 54 | 100% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 11% |
| Researcher | 4 | 7% |
| Professor | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 6% |
| Unknown | 22 | 41% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Engineering | 11 | 20% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 5 | 9% |
| Energy | 5 | 9% |
| Materials Science | 3 | 6% |
| Chemistry | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 3 | 6% |
| Unknown | 25 | 46% |
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