Metal contamination in solar cells

Impact of Metal Contamination in Silicon Solar Cells

2010 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM 2010) September 22-24, 2010, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Impact of Metal Contamination in Silicon Solar Cells Gianluca Coletti ECN Solar Energy Westerduinweg 3, 1755 LE Petten, The Netherlands Email: coletti@ecn , Tel.: +31 224 56 4382, Fax: +31 224 56 8214 …

Impact of Metal Contamination in Silicon Solar Cells

The impact of the transition metals iron, chromium, nickel, titanium and copper on solar‐cell performance is investigated. Each impurity is intentionally added to the silicon feedstock used to grow p‐type, directionally solidified, multicrystalline silicon ingots.

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Our results show that the detection limits are sufficient for process control in solar cell manufacturing. Particularly, the analysis and recovery of Cu is regarded, which may – besides Fe – play an important role in the degradation of surface and interface …

Metal surface contamination in c-Si solar cell processing

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Metal surface contamination in c-Si solar cell processing

Fe and Cu have been identified as the key species for the contemplation of surface contamination in the processing of c-Si solar cells. Studies with targeted metal concentrations for various ...

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Further increasing the conversion efficiency of silicon solar cells by advanced solar cell concepts like SHJ (Silicon Hetero-Junction), PERT (Passivated Emitter Rear Totally diffused), IBC (Interdigitated Back-Contact), requires a highly controlled silicon surface in terms of metal impurity density. The goal of this study is investigating the …

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Regarding the origin of bulk Cu contamination in the lifetime sample wafers, a Cu concentration of 0.5-2 Â 10 14 cm À2 was measured on the surface of both material types (Cz-Si and qm-Si) after ...

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Even if there is a HTL separating the MAPbI 3 layer and the metal electrode, the metal atoms may still diffuse through the HTL causing contamination of the MAPbI 3 layer. 31 A recent experiment based on the solar cell in the FTO/TiO 2 /MAPbI 3 /HTL/Au configuration showed that Au can diffuse into MAPbI 3 at 70 °C, leading to …

Impact of Metal Contamination in Silicon Solar Cells

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Impact of metal contamination in multicrystalline silicon solar cells ...

The impact on solar cell performance of iron has been investigated. Iron has been intentionally added to silicon feedstock used to grow p-type directionally solidified multicrystalline silicon ingots.

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Impact of metal contamination in silicon solar cells. Adv. Funct. Mater., 21 (5) (2011), pp. 879-890. CrossRef View in Scopus Google Scholar [9] D. Macdonald, L.J. Geerligs. Recombination activity of interstitial iron and other transition metal point defects in p-and n-type crystalline silicon.

Impact of Metal Contamination in Silicon Solar Cells

The impact of the transition metals iron, chromium, nickel, titanium and copper on solar-cell performance is investigated. Each impurity is intentionally added to the silicon feedstock used to grow p-type, directionally solidified, multicrystalline silicon ingots. A state-of-the-art screen-print solar-cell process is applied to this material.

Metal surface contamination in c-Si solar cell processing

Semantic Scholar extracted view of "Metal surface contamination in c-Si solar cell processing" by F. Buchholz. Skip to search form Skip to main content ... Search. Sign In Create Free Account. Corpus ID: 137930456; Metal surface contamination in c-Si solar cell processing @inproceedings{Buchholz2016MetalSC, title={Metal surface …

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Impact of metal contamination in multicrystalline silicon solar cells ...

Adding 50 ppmwt of iron to silicon feedstock, results in comparable solar cell performances to reference uncontaminated material, in the range 40 to 70% of the ingot height. Iron causes a reduction in the diffusion length, which decreases with the ingot height.

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7.2.3 Metal Contamination in Silicon Solar Cells. The impact of metal doping on the performance of solar cells has been systematically investigated by the Westinghouse Group around 1980 [158,159,160]. In that study, a series of p-type Czochralski silicon crystals have been pulled, doped with different concentrations of metals and solar …

Advanced Metal Contamination Analysis for High Efficiency Solar Cell ...

Regarding the origin of bulk Cu contamination in the lifetime sample wafers, a Cu concentration of 0.5-2 Â 10 14 cm À2 was measured on the surface of both material types (Cz-Si and qm-Si) after ...

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Impact of Metal Contamination in Silicon Solar Cells

Fe and Cu have been identified as the key species for the contemplation of surface contamination in the processing of c-Si solar cells. Studies with targeted metal concentrations for...

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Impact of metal contamination in multicrystalline silicon solar cells ...

The impact on solar cell performance of iron has been investigated. Iron has been intentionally added to silicon feedstock used to grow p-type directionally solidified multicrystalline silicon ingots. A state of the art screen print solar cell process has been applied to wafers from the bottom to top of the ingot. Adding 50 ppmwt of iron to silicon …

Impact of Metal Contamination in Silicon Solar Cells

The impact on solar cell performance of transition metals like iron, chromium, nickel, titanium and copper is the topic of this extended abstract. Each impurity has been intentionally added to silicon feedstock used to grow p-type directionally solidified …

Laser ablation ICP-MS for detection of substrate contamination from ...

The use of laser ablation inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) is introduced for the analysis of substrate contamination from plated metal contacts on silicon solar cells. Solar cells with plated Ni/Cu/Ag contacts were heat treated at 200 °C for up to 1000 hours and the concentration of p

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Laser ablation ICP-MS for detection of substrate contamination from ...

The use of laser ablation inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) is introduced for the analysis of substrate contamination from plated metal contacts on silicon solar cells. Solar cells with plated Ni/Cu/Ag contacts were heat treated at 200 °C for up to 1000 hours and the concentration of plated metals in the silicon wafer ...

Formation and Diffusion of Metal Impurities in …

Many noble and transition metals (e.g., Au, Ag, Cu, Cr, Mo, Ni) have been used as electrodes in MAPbI 3 solar cells, 31-39 …

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