• 에너지공학
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.243-248
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• 2012

본 연구는 고온고습 시험을 통하여 Cell 레벨에서의 표면관찰 및 효율저하를 분석하였다. 고온고습 시험조건은 KS C IEC-61215에서 제시한 PV 모듈하의 조건을 이용하여 온도 $85^{\circ}C$, 습도 85%, 1000hr 동안 수행하였다. EL(Electroluminescence)촬영을 통하여 Cell 표면의 이상 유 무를 분석한 결과, 시간이 경과함에 따라, 부분적으로 표면이 손상되어 변색되는 것을 확인하였다. 고온고습 시험 전 단결정 Cell 및 다결정 Cell의 효율은 각각 17.7%, 15.5%였으며, 1000hr 수행 후 15.6%, 14.0%로 각각 11.9%와 9.3%의 감소율을 보였다. 또한, 경년 시 나타나는 전기적 특성을 분석하기 위하여 FF(Fill Factor)값을 분석한 결과, 고온고습 시험 후 단결정 Cell은 78.7%에서 75.0%로 4.7%, 다결정 Cell은 78.1%에서 76.7%로 1.8%의 감소율을 보였다. 태양전지 실리콘의 원자배열 및 순도에 따라 효율 변화에 영향을 받아 단결정 Cell이 다결정 Cell보다 효율저하가 크게 나타났다고 판단된다. 또한, FF감소율보다 효율 감소율이 크게 저하된 것을 확인할 수 있었으며, 이는 Cell의 외부환경적 요인에 의한 표면 손상이 p-n접합층 접촉저항과 경년 시 나타나는 FF 감소율보다 크게 영향을 준 것으로 판단된다.

• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.27-30
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• 2018

The dependency of the electrical characteristics of silicon solar-cells on the depth of damaged layer induced by wire-sawing process was investigated. To compare cell efficiency with residual sawing damage, silicon solar-cells were fabricated by using as-sawn wafers having different depth of saw damage without any damaged etching process. The damaged layer induced by wire-sawing process in silicon bulk intensely influenced the value of fill factor on solar cells, degrading fill factor to 57.20%. In addition, the photovoltaic characteristics of solar cells applying texturing process shows that although the initial depth of saw-damage induced by wire-sawing process was different, the value of short-circuit current, fill-factor, and power-conversion-efficiency have an almost same, showing ~17.4% of cell efficiency. It indicated that the degradation of solar-cell efficiency induced by wire-sawing process could be prevented by eliminating all damaged layer through sufficient pyramid-surface texturing process.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.2439-2443
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• 2011

태양전지를 제작하는데 실리콘기판 표면에서의 광 흡수를 증가시키기 위한 표면조직화를 위해서 염기 용액을 이용한 습식방법을 이용하여 샘플을 제작하였다. 이렇게 준비된 염기성 에칭용액을 이용한 실리콘 웨이퍼의 표면 상태를 관찰하여 광학적 특성과의 연관성을 조사하였다. 표면조직화가 표면 전체적으로 고르게 이루어진 샘플에서 반사도가 낮았으며, 광학적 특성이 좋게 나타났다. 에칭이 과도하게 일어난 샘플에서는 오히려 반사도가 증가하여 광학적 특성이 떨어지는 것을 확인 하였다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.196-200
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• 2005

In this work, we investigated simple Aㅣ/TCO/a-Si:H(n)/c-Si(p)/Al hetero-junction solar cells prepared by low temperature processes, unlike conventional thermal diffused c-Si solar cells. a-Si:H/c-Si hetero-junction solar cells are processed by low temperature deposition of n-type hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) films by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition on textured and flat p-type silicon substrate. A detailed investigation was carried out to acquire optimization and compatibility of amorphous layer, TCO (ZnO:Al) layer depositions by changing the plasma process parameters. As front TCO and back contact, ZnO:Al and AI were deposited by rf magnetron sputtering and e-beam evaporation, respectively. The photovoltaic conversion efficiency under AMI.5 and the quantum efficiency on $1cm^2$ sample have been reported. An efficiency of $12.5\%$ is achieved on hetero-structure solar cells based on p-type crystalline silicon.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2006년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.19
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• pp.109-109
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• 2006

Screen printing (SP) metal contact is typically applied to the solar cells for mass production. However, SP metal contact has low aspect ratio, low accuracy, hard control of the substrate penetration and unclean process. On the other hand, photo lithograpy (PL) metal contact can reduce defects by metal contact. In this investigation, PL metal contact was obtained the multi-layer structure of Ti/Pd/Ag by e-beam process. We applied SP metal contact and PL metal contact to single crystalline silicon solar cells, and demonstrated the difference of conversion efficiency. Because PL metal contact silicon solar cell has Jsc (short circuit current density) better than silicon solar cell applied SP metal contact.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.410-414
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• 2013

Rapid thermal processing (RTP) abruptly decreases the time required to perform solar cell processes. RTP were used to form emitter of crystalline silicon solar cells. The emitter sheet resistance is studied as a function of time and temperature. The objective of this study is reduction of doping process time with same performance. Emitter difRapid thermal dfusion was carried out by using a spin on doping and a RTP. iffusion was performed in the temperature range of $700{\sim}750^{\circ}C$ for 1m 30s~15 m. Thermal budgets yielded a $50{\Omega}/sq$ emitter using a P509 source. To reduce process time and get high efficiency, rapid thermal diffusion by IR lamp was employed in air atmosphere at $700^{\circ}C$ for 15 m.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제52권10호
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• pp.447-450
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• 2003

This paper presents a process optimization of antireflection (AR) coating on crystalline Si solar cells. Theoretical and experimental investigations were performed on a double-layer AR (DLAR) coating of MgF$_2$/CeO$_2$. We investigated CeO$_2$ films as an AR layer because they have a proper refractive index of 2.46 and demonstrate the same lattice constant as Si substrate. RF sputter grown CeO$_2$ film showed strong dependence on a deposition temperature. The CeO$_2$ deposited at 40$0^{\circ}C$ exhibited a strong (111) preferred orientation and the lowest surface roughness of 6.87 $\AA$. Refractive index of MgF$_2$ film was measured as 1.386 for the most of growth temperature. An optimized DLAR coating showed a reflectance as low as 2.04% in the wavelengths ranged from 0.4${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ to 1.1${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$. We achieved the efficiencies of solar cells greater than 15% with 3.12% improvement with DLAR coatings. Further details on MgF$_2$, CeO$_2$ films, and cell fabrication parameters are presented in this paper.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 1999년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.593-596
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• 1999

This paper presents a process optimization of antireflectiun (AR) coating on crystalline Si solar cells. Theoretical and experimental investigations were performed on a doble-layer AR(DLAR) coating of MgF$_2$/CeO$_2$, We investigated CeO$_2$ films as an All layer because they hale a proper refractive index of 2.46 and demonstrate the same lattice constant as Si substrate. RF sputter grown CeO$_2$ film showed strong dependence on a deposition temperature. The CeO$_2$ film deposited at 400 $^{\circ}C$ exhibited a strong (111) preferred orientation and the lowest surface roughness of 6.87 $\AA$. Refractive index of MgF$_2$ film was measured as 1.386 for the most of growth temperature. An optimized DLAR coating showed a reflectance as low as 2.04 % in the wavelengths ranged from 0.4 7m to 1.1 7m. We achieved the efficiencies of solar cells greater than 15% with 3.12 % improvement with DLAR coatings . Further details on MgF$_2$, CeO$_2$ films, and cell fabrication Parameters are presented in this paper.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2006년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.19
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• pp.116-117
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• 2006

We investigated selective emitter effect of Porous Silicon (PSI) as antireflection coatings (ARC). The thin PSi layer, less than 100nm, was electrochemically formed by electrochemical method in about $3{\mu}m$ thick $n^+$ emitter on single crystalline silicon wafer (sc-Si). The appropriate PSi formations for selective emitter effect were carried out a two steps. A first set of samples allowed to be etched after metal-contact processing and a second one to evaporate Ag front-side metallization on PSi layer, by evaluating the I-V features The PSi has reflectance less than 20% in wavelength for 450-1000nm and porosity is about 60%. The cell made after front-contact has improved cell efficiency of about in comparison with the one made after PSi. The observed increase of efficiency for samples with PSi coating could be explained not only by the reduction of the reflection loss and surface recombination but also by the increased short-circuit current (Isc) within selective emitter. The assumption was confirmed by numerical modeling. The obtained results point out that it would be possible to prepare a solar cell over 15% efficiency by the proposed simple technology.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.42-51
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• 1981

결정방위 (100)인 단결정 P형 실리콘 기판으로 N+PP+ 태양전지를 제작하였다. 뒷면의 P+층의 형성은 940℃에서 60분간 boron nitride를 사용하는 첫번째 boron predeposition과 boron glass를 제거하지 않고 1145℃에서 3시간 동안 행하는 두번째 predeposition으로 이루어지며 boron 확산층의 어닐링은 1100℃에서 40분간 하였다. 앞면의 N+ 층의 형성은 900℃에서 7∼15분동안 POCI3 source를 사용하는 Phosphorus Predeposition으로 이루어지며 어닐링은 800℃에서 1시간 동안 dryO2분위기로 하였다 금속전극층의 형성은 Ti, Pd, Ag의 순으로 앞, 뒷면에 이들 금속들을 질공증착한 후 사진식각을 함으로써 이루어지며 이에 다시 전기도금을 하여 전체 전극층의 두께를 3∼4μm정도로 증가시켰다. 표면 광반사를 줄이기 위해 앞면에 400℃에서 silicon nitride를 입혔으며 마지막으로 550℃에서 10분간 alloy를 함으로써 금속전극의 신뢰도를 높혔다. 그 결과 제작된 면적 3.36㎠의 N+PP+ 전지들은 100mW/㎠의 인공조명하에서 단락전류 103mA, 개방전압 0.59V ,충실도 0.8을 보였다. 따라서 실제 전면적(수광면적)효율이 14.4%(16.2%)가 되어 BSF가 없는 N+P 전지의 11%전면적 변환효율에서 약3.5%의 효율이 개선되었다.