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ECN publication
Title:
Silicon solar cells textured by low damage RIE with natural lithography
 
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Published by: Publication date:
ECN Solar Energy 1-5-2002
 
ECN report number: Document type:
ECN-RX--02-020 Conference Paper
 
Number of pages: Full text:
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Presented at: 29th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, New Orleans, USA, 20-24 mei 2002.

Abstract:
RIE with natura1 lithography has two advantages over RIE with automasking:the process causes less surface damage and the process window is broader. We have systematically explored the parameter range of our process and identified a natura1 lithography RIE process which causes a minimum amount of surface damage. By using this RIE process and a wet chemical etch of a few nanometers, we reached a gain in shortcircuit current of 2.9% and no loss in open circuit voltage. This resulted in an absolute efficiency gain of 0.6% for the RIE textured wafers.


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