TY - JOUR
T1 - An experimental technique to measure the shunt resistance across a local region of a floating junction
AU - McIntosh, Keith R.
AU - Boonprakaikaew, Ganokwan
AU - Honsberg, Christiana B.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge Mark Keevers for his assistance with the experimental component of the paper, and Seyed Ghozati for the fabrication of the tested solar cell. Keith McIntosh also appreciates the financial support given by the School of Electrical Engineering at UNSW. The Photovoltaic Special Research Centre is supported under the Australian Research Council's Research Centres Programme.
PY - 2000/11
Y1 - 2000/11
N2 - The inclusion of a floating junction (FJ) at the surface of a solar cell is one way to obtain good-quality surface passivation. The development of FJ-passivated solar cells, however, has been hindered by the frequent occurrence of shunting across the FJ. Shunting can occur at specific regions of the FJ, such as at isolated points of the base contact or at the edges of the solar cell. This paper presents an experimental technique to determine the shunt resistance across local regions of an FJ, thereby providing a means to compare the prevalence of shunting in one region to another. By locating and quantifying the shunting in specific regions of an FJ, valuable insight into its cause can be obtained.
AB - The inclusion of a floating junction (FJ) at the surface of a solar cell is one way to obtain good-quality surface passivation. The development of FJ-passivated solar cells, however, has been hindered by the frequent occurrence of shunting across the FJ. Shunting can occur at specific regions of the FJ, such as at isolated points of the base contact or at the edges of the solar cell. This paper presents an experimental technique to determine the shunt resistance across local regions of an FJ, thereby providing a means to compare the prevalence of shunting in one region to another. By locating and quantifying the shunting in specific regions of an FJ, valuable insight into its cause can be obtained.
KW - Characterisation
KW - Floating-junction passivation
KW - Shunt resistance
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U2 - 10.1016/S0927-0248(00)00225-7
DO - 10.1016/S0927-0248(00)00225-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0347947753
SN - 0927-0248
VL - 64
SP - 353
EP - 361
JO - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
JF - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
IS - 4
ER -