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http://dx.doi.org/10.7849/ksnre.2012.8.1.024

Light Induced Degradation in Crystalline Si Solar Cells  

Tark, Sung-Ju (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University)
Kim, Young-Do (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University)
Kim, Soo-Min (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University)
Park, Sung-Eun (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University)
Kim, Dong-Hwan (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University)
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New & Renewable Energy / v.8, no.1, 2012 , pp. 24-34 More about this Journal
Abstract
The main issue of boron doped p-type czochralski-grown silicon solar cells is the degradation when they are exposed to light or minority carriers injection. This is due to the meta-stable defect such as boron-oxygen in the Cz-Si material. Although a clear explanation is still researching, recent investigations have revealed that the Cz-Si defect is related with the boron and the oxygen concentration. They also revealed how these defects act a recombination centers in solar cells using density function theory (DFT) calculation. This paper reviews the physical understanding and gives an overview of the degradation models. Therefore, various methods for avoiding the light-induced degradation in Cz-Si solar cells are compared in this paper.
Keywords
Light induced degradation; Solar cells; Silicon; Boron doped Cz-Si; Defect pair; Carrier lifetime;
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