TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact and options for boron diffusions in buried contact solar cells
AU - Slade, Alexander M.
AU - Honsberg, Christiana B.
AU - Wenham, Stuart R.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank DETYA and the Photovoltaics Special Research Centre at UNSW for the funding of this work. Thanks are also due to T. Puzzer & J. Cotter for assistance in the preparation of this article.
PY - 2001/2
Y1 - 2001/2
N2 - Boron-diffused rear surfaces are used in place of an Al/Si alloy to form a back surface field (BSF) for single-sided buried contact (SSBC) cells. The findings are that a heavy boron diffusion over a large area can retain high bulk lifetime and have a low saturation current. SSBC solar cells that were made had the entire rear heavily boron diffused. These cells had open-circuit voltages of 650, 645, and 640 mV on 3 and 10 Ω cm p-type, and 100 Ω cm (rear junction) n-type, respectively.
AB - Boron-diffused rear surfaces are used in place of an Al/Si alloy to form a back surface field (BSF) for single-sided buried contact (SSBC) cells. The findings are that a heavy boron diffusion over a large area can retain high bulk lifetime and have a low saturation current. SSBC solar cells that were made had the entire rear heavily boron diffused. These cells had open-circuit voltages of 650, 645, and 640 mV on 3 and 10 Ω cm p-type, and 100 Ω cm (rear junction) n-type, respectively.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0927-0248(00)00152-5
DO - 10.1016/S0927-0248(00)00152-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0035253966
VL - 66
SP - 11
EP - 15
JO - Solar Cells
JF - Solar Cells
SN - 0927-0248
IS - 1-4
ER -