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Fresnel lens-DCPC-concentrating solar cell-heat sink type solar module (Fresnel 렌즈-DCPC-집광형태양전지-방열판형 solar module에 관한 연구)

  • 송진수
    • 전기의세계
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    • v.30 no.10
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    • pp.655-661
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    • 1981
  • The concentrating solar module with high concentration ratio(320)has been studied.in this paper. The solar module was composed of the EMVJ solar cell, (Fresnel Lens-DCPC)concentrator and heat sink, and was measured by using the PASTF system. The experimental result and the result analysis for the individual item of the module were as f ollows; (1) The conversion efficiency of the module was 8.3%. (2) The optical efficiency of the concentrator was 46.5% (DCPC; 84.8%, Fresnel Lens; 54.8%). (3) The thermal loss of the solar cell was 4.9%. And methods for the further improvement of the concentrating solar module efficiency have been suggested.

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Solar Cell Efficiency Improvement using a Pre-deposition Temperature Optimization in The Solar Cell Doping Process (도핑 공정에서의 Pre-deposition 온도 최적화를 이용한 Solar Cell 효율 개선)

  • Choi, Sung-Jin;Yoo, Jin-Su;Yoo, Kwon-Jong;Han, Kyu-Min;Kwon, Jun-Young;Lee, Hi-Deok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.244-244
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    • 2010
  • Doping process of crystalline silicon solar cell process is very important which is as influential on efficiency of solar. Doping process consists of pre -deposition and diffusion. Each of these processes is important in the process temperature and process time. Through these process conditions variable, p-n junction depth can be controled to low and high. In this paper, we studied a optimized doping pre-deposition temperature for high solar cell efficiency. Using a $200{\mu}m$ thickness multi-crystalline silicon wafer, fixed conditions are texture condition, sheet resistance($50\;{\Omega}/sq$), ARC thickness(80nm), metal formation condition and edge isolation condition. The three variable conditions of pre-deposition temperature are $790^{\circ}C$, $805^{\circ}C$ and $820^{\circ}C$. In the $790^{\circ}C$ pre-deposition temperature, we achieved a best solar cell efficiency of 16.2%. Through this experiment result, we find a high efficiency condition in a low pre-deposition temperature than the high pre-deposition temperature. We optimized a pre-deposition temperature for high solar cell efficiency.

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High Efficiency Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells (고효율 단결정 실리콘 태양전지)

  • Kim, D.S.;Cho, E.C.;Cho, Y.H.;Ebong, A.U.;Min, Y.S.;Lee, S.H.
    • Solar Energy
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.17-26
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    • 1997
  • Since PESC(passivated emitter solar cell) was developed in 1985, high efficiency silicon solar cell technology based on planar technology has been improved in the order of PERC, Point Contact Solar Cell, PERL. BCSC and DSBC, which do not require photolithography, are expected to replace commercial screen printed cells because of its potential for low cost and high efficiency. In this paper, history and characteristics of each type of cells are reviewed.

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Performance Improvement of Flexible Thin Film Si Solar Cells using Graphite Substrate (그라파이트 기판을 이용한 유연 박막 실리콘 태양전지 특성 향상)

  • Lim, Gyeong-yeol;Cho, Jun-sik;Chang, Hyo Sik
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.317-321
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    • 2019
  • We investigated the characteristics of nano crystalline silicon(nc-Si) thin-film solar cells on graphite substrates. Amorphous silicon(a-Si) thin-film solar cells on graphite plates show low conversion efficiency due to high surface roughness, and many recombination by dangling bonds. In previous studies, we deposited barrier films by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition(PECVD) on graphite plate to reduce surface roughness and achieved ~7.8 % cell efficiency. In this study, we fabricated nc-Si thin film solar cell on graphite in order to increase the efficiency of solar cells. We achieved 8.45 % efficiency on graphite plate and applied this to nc-Si on graphite sheet for flexible solar cell applications. The characterization of the cell is performed with external quantum efficiency(EQE) and current density-voltage measurements(J-V). As a result, we obtain ~8.42 % cell efficiency in a flexible solar cell fabricated on a graphite sheet, which performance is similar to that of cells fabricated on graphite plates.

AFORS HET Simulation for Optimization of High Efficiency HIT Solar Cell (고효율 HIT Solar Cell 제작을 위한 AFORS HET 시뮬레이션 실험)

  • Cho, Soo-Hyun;Heo, Jong-Kyu;Yi, Jun-Sin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.450-451
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    • 2008
  • Amorphous silicon Solar cell has n-i-p structure in general, and each layer's thickness and doping concentration are very important factors which are as influential on efficiency of salar cell. Using AFORS HET simulation to get the high efficiency, by adjusting n layer's thickness and doping concentration, p layer's doping concentration. The optimized values are a-Si:H(n)'s thickness of 1nm, a-Si:H(n)r's doping concentration of $2\times10^{20}cm^{-3}$, a-Si:H(p+)r's doping concentration of $1\times10^{19}cm^{-3}$. After optimization, the solar cell shows $V_{oc}$=679.5mV, $J_{sc}$=39.02mA/$cm^2$, FF=83.71%, and a high Efficiency=22.21%. Though this study, we can use this study for planning or manufacturing solar cell which has high efficiency.

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Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency Improvement with surface Damage Removal Etching and Anti-reflection Coating Process (표면결함식각 및 반사방지막 열처리에 따른 태양전지의 효율 개선)

  • Cho, Chan Seob;Oh, Jeong Hwa;Lee, Byeungleul;Kim, Bong Hwan
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 2014
  • In this study general solar cell production process was complemented, with research on improvement of solar cell efficiency through surface structure and thermal annealing process. Firstly, to form the pyramid structure, the saw damage removal (SDR) processed surface was undergone texturing process with reactive ion etching (RIE). Then, for the formation of smooth pyramid structure to facilitate uniform doping and electrode formation, the surface was etched with HND(HF : HNO3 : D.I. water=5 : 100 : 100) solution. Notably, due to uniform doping the leakage current decreased greatly. Also, for the enhancement and maintenance of minority carrier lifetime, antireflection coating thermal annealing was done. To maintain this increased lifetime, front electrode was formed through Au plating process without high temperature firing process. Through these changes in two processes, the leakage current effect could be decreased and furthermore, the conversion efficiency could be increased. Therefore, compared to the general solar cell with a conversion efficiency of 15.89%, production of high efficiency solar cell with a conversion efficiency of 17.24% was made possible.

Texturing Effects on High Efficiency Silicon Buried Contact Solar Cell (전극 함몰형 고효율 실리콘 태양전지에서의 texturing 효과)

  • 지일환;조영현;이수홍
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 1995.05a
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    • pp.172-176
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    • 1995
  • Schemes to trap weakly absorbed light into the cell have played an important role in improving the efficiency of both amorphous and crystlline silicon solar cells. One class of scheme relies on randomizing the direction of light within the cell by use of Lambertian(diffuse)surfaces. A second class of scheme relies on the use fo well defined geometrical features to control the direction of light wihin the cell, Widly used geometrical features in crystalline silicon solar cells are the square based pyramids and V-shaped grooves formed in (100) orientated surfaces by intersecting(III) crystallographic planes exposed by anisotropic etching. 18.5% conversion efficiency of Buried Contact Solar Cell with pyramidally textured surface has been achieved. 18.5% efficiency of silicon solar cell is one the highest record in the world The efficieny of cell without textured surface was 16.6%, When adapting textured surface to the Cell, the efficiency has been improved over 12%.

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A Study on Fabrication and Properties of the GaAs/Si Solar Cell Using MOCVD (MOCVD를 이용한 GAs/Si 태양전지의 제작과 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Cha, I.S.;Lee, M.G.
    • Solar Energy
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.137-146
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    • 1998
  • In this paper, the current status of manufacturing technologies for GaAs/Si solar cell were revived and provied new MOCVD. In the manufacturing process of GaAs/Si solar cells and an experiment to get the high efficiency GaAs solar cells, we must investigate the optimum growth conditions to get high quality GaAs films on Si substrates by MOCVD. The GaAs on Si substrates has been recognized as a lightweight alternative to pure substrate for space applicaton. Because its density is less the half of GaAs or Ge.So GaAs/Si has twofold weight advantage to GaAs monolithic cell. The theoretical conversion efficiecy limit of tandem GaAs/Si solar cell is 32% under AM 0 and $25^{\circ}C$ condition. It was concluded that the development of cost effective MOCVD technologies shoud be ahead GaAs solar cells for achived move high efficiency III-V solar cells involving tandem structure.

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Manufacturing and Thermal Process Optimization of Ag-paste for Fabricating High Efficiency Mono-Si Solar Cell (고효율 단결정 Si 태양전지 제작을 위한 은 페이스트의 제조 및 열 공정 최적화)

  • Pi, Ji-Hee;Kim, Sung-Jin;Son, Chang-Rok;Kweon, Soon-Yong
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.144-150
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    • 2013
  • A New Ag-pastes were developed for integrating the high efficiency mono-Si solar cell. The pastes were the mixture of 84 wt% Ag, 2 wt% glass frit, 11 wt% solvent of buthyl cabitol acetate, and 3 wt% additives. After fabricating the Ag-pastes by using a 3-roll mill, they were coated on a $SiN_x$/n+/p- stacks of a commercial mono-Si solar cell. And the post-thermal process was also optimized by varying the process conditions of peak temperature. The optimized solar cell efficiency on a 6-inch mono-Si wafer was 18.28%, which was the one of the world best performances. It meaned that the newly developed Ag-paste could be adopted to fabricate a commercial bulk Si solar cell.

The Research of Ni/Cu Contact Using Light-induced Plating for Cryatalline Silicom Solar Cells (결정질 실리콘 태양전지에 적용될 Light-induced plating을 이용한 Ni/Cu 전극에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Min-Jeong;Lee, Soo-Hong
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.350-355
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    • 2009
  • The crysralline silicon solar cell where the solar cell market grows rapidly is occupying of about 85% or more high efficiency and low cost endeavors many crystalline solar cells. The fabricaion process of high efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells necessitate complicated fabrication processes and Ti/Pd/AG contact, This metal contacts have only been used in limited areas in spite of their good srability and low contact resistance because of expensive materials and process. Commercial solar cells with screen-printed solar cells formed by using Ag paste suffer from loe fill factor and high contact resistance and low aspect ratio. Ni and Cu metal contacts have been formed by using electroless plating and light-induced electro plating techniques to replace the Ti/Pd/Ag and screen-printed Ag contacts. Copper and Silver can be plated by electro & light-induced plating method. Light-induced plating makes use the photovoltaic effect of solar cell to deposit the metal on the front contact. The cell is immersed into the electrolytic plating bath and irradiated at the front side by light source, which leads to a current density in the front side grid. Electroless plated Ni/ Electro&light-induced plated Cu/ Light-induced plated Ag contact solar cells result in an energy conversion efficiency of 16.446 % on 0.2~0.6${\Omega}$ cm, $20{\times}20mm^2$, CZ(Czochralski) wafer.

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