Fabrication of ultra-small texture arrays on multicrystalline silicon surface for solar cell application

Bingfei Dou; Rui Jia; Haofeng Li; Chen Chen; Yun Sun; Yue Zhang; Wuchang Ding; Yanlong Meng; Xinyu Liu; Tianchun Ye

doi:10.1016/j.solener.2012.12.024

Fabrication of ultra-small texture arrays on multicrystalline silicon surface for solar cell application

Bingfei Dou, Rui Jia, Haofeng Li, Chen Chen, Yun Sun, Yue Zhang, Wuchang Ding, Yanlong Meng, Xinyu Liu, Tianchun Ye

Materials Research Institute (MRI)

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In this paper, ultra-small texture arrays have been synthesized via Ag and Ni catalyzed etching on the multicrystalline silicon wafers. The wafers textured by Ni catalyzed etching can obtain similar optical property to the ones textured by Ag catalyzed etching. Then the corresponding solar cells of the two groups were manufactured and investigated. The performance of the solar cells textured via Ni catalyzed etching is better, due to their lower recombination. In addition, as Ni is much cheaper than Ag, this Ni catalyzed etching technique is promising to industrial fabrication.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	145-151
Number of pages	7
Journal	Solar Energy
Volume	91
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2012.12.024
State	Published - May 2013

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