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http://dx.doi.org/10.4313/TEEM.2004.5.1.001

Application of CBD Zinc Sulfide (ZnS) Film to Low Cost Antireflection Coating on Large Area Industrial Silicon Solar Cell  

U. Gangopadhyay (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sung Kyun Kwan University)
Kim, Kyung-Hea (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sung Kyun Kwan University)
S.K. Dhungel (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sung Kyun Kwan University)
D. Mangalaraj (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sung Kyun Kwan University)
Park, J.H. (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sung Kyun Kwan University)
J. Yi (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sung Kyun Kwan University)
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Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials / v.5, no.1, 2004 , pp. 1-6 More about this Journal
Abstract
Zinc sulfide is a semiconductor with wide band gap and high refractive index and hence promising material to be used as ARC on commercial silicon solar cells. Uniform deposition of zinc sulfide (ZnS) by using chemical bath deposition (CBD) method over a large area of silicon surface is an emerging field of research because ZnS film can be used as a low cost antireflection coating (ARC). The main problem of the CBD bath process is the huge amount of precipitation that occurs during heterogeneous reaction leading to hamper the rate of deposition as well as uniformity and chemical stoichiometry of deposited film. Molar concentration of thiorea plays an important role in varying the percentage of reflectance and refractive index of as-deposited CBD ZnS film. Desirable rate of film deposition (19.6 ${\AA}$ / min), film uniformity (Std. dev. < 1.8), high value of refractive index (2.35), low reflectance (0.655) have been achieved with proper optimization of ZnS bath. Decrease in refractive index of CBD ZnS film due to high temperature treatment in air ambiance has been pointed out in this paper. Solar cells of conversion efficiency 13.8 ％ have been successfully achieved with a large area (103 mm ${\times}$ 103 mm) mono-crystalline silicon wafers by using CBD ZnS antireflection coating in this modified approach.
Keywords
Zinc sulfide; Chemical bath deposition; Antireflection; Solar cell;
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