121st General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Material Chemistry
Room No. Event Hall
Time 4월 20일 (금요일) 11:00~12:30
Code MAT.P-505
Subject 18.4%-efficient heterojunction Si solar cells using optimized ITO/top electrode
Authors Namwoo Kim, KWANYONG SEO1,*
Energy and Chemical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
1School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Abstract We optimized the thickness of a transparent conductive oxide (TCO) layer, and applied a micro-scale, mesh-pattern metal electrode to prevent efficiency degradation due to current loss caused by the TCO layer and top electrode of an a-Si/c-Si heterojunction solar cell. A solar cell equipped with a micro-grid metal electrode demonstrated a high short-circuit current density (JSC) of 40.1 mA/cm2, and achieved high efficiency of 18.4% with an open-circuit voltage (VOC) of 618 mV and a fill factor (FF) of 74.1%. When compared with conventional bus/finger bar electrodes, the micro-gird metal electrode improved JSC by more than 10% via a shortened carrier path length and a decreased electrode area (more than 50%). Furthermore, by optimizing the process sequence for electrode formation, we could effectively restore the reduction in VOC that occurs during the micro-grid metal electrode formation process. This work is expected to become a fundamental study that can effectively improve current loss in a-Si/c-Si heterojunction solar cells through the optimization of transparent and metal electrodes.
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