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Removing the effect of striations in n-type silicon solar cells
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ECN
Solar Energy
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11-11-2014
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ECN-W--14-043
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Article (scientific)
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5
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Published in: Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells (Elsevier), , 2014, Vol.130, p.647-651.
Abstract:
Several industrial n-type Czochralski silicon ingots were analysed on wafer and cell levels with ECN's bifacial n-type solar cell process. In some of the ingots, the solar cell performance in the very top drop of about 1% absolute with respect to cell from the middle part of the ingot. These cells show typical ring shaped pattern. After receiving a post-process anneal treatment at 200 1C, the ef?ciency nearly completly recover. We demonstrated that the improvement is due to bulk lifetime enhancement. The recovery is stable in storage conditions, under illumination and high temperature treatments up to 600 1C. The same effect cannot be reproduced in p-type Cz silicon solar cells with similar ring shaped patterns. This indicates that the defects responsible for lifetime and ef?ciency degradation in wafers
affected by ring patterns differ in n-type and p-type.
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