Electrical and Structural Properties of P-Type Monocrystalline Silicon Solar Cell with Phosphorus Screen-Printed N+ Emitter

Abstract:

We have fabricated p-type monocrystalline silicon (Si) solar cell with phosphorus (P) screen-printed n+ emitter and investigated its electrical and structural properties. During P screen-printed n+ emitter process, a 16 nm-thick phosphosilicate glass (PSG) layer was formed as a result of interaction between P-dopant paste and Si substrate. Due to the PSG reflow associated with the reduction of viscosity of oxide caused by the amount of P atoms in PSG layer, thinner and thicker PSG film was formed in convex and concave regions of the textured Si surface, respectively, which was quite different from the growth behavior of thermally grown SiO₂ layer. Due to a strong dependence of P diffusion on the Si interstitials, deeper and shallower junctions were abnormally formed near the convex and concave regions in the textured Si surface, respectively. The electric field and temperature dependence of the current-voltage characteristics demonstrated that the Poole-Frenkel barrier lowering mechanism along with the generation-recombination mechanism had dominance over the current conduction in the reverse bias region of p-type monocrystalline Si solar cell fabricated using screen printing process.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 575)
• Pages: 682-688
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.575.682
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Chel Jong Choi*, V. Janardhan
• Keywords: Generation-Recombination, Phosphosilicate Glass, Poole-Frenkel Barrier Lowering, P-Type Monocrystalline Si Solar Cell, Reverse Leakage Current, Screen-Printing

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