Abstract
The present buried contact (BC) solar cell research at SAIT includes the development of a processing sequence suitable for production of the single sided (SS) BC solar cells. This paper presents some results for large area ($45cm^{2}$) SSBC cells fabricated on FZ and CZ silicon substrates. Cell efficiencies in excess of 18% fabricated on FZ, p-type, 0.5 ohm-cm, and over 16% on CZ p-type, 10~20 ohm-cm, wafers have been demonstrated. Both the FZ and CZ wafers were chemically textured. These results are preliminary and the exploration of double sided (DS) sequence, which is the future BC structure would lead to over 17% and 20% efficiency cells on CZ and FZ substrates respectively. The cost of solar cells can be reduced further if the many high temperature steps can be reduced to only one. This would be very advantageous to very poor quality substrates such as the CZ grown wafers.
이 논문은 현재 삼성종합기술원에서 연구개발이 진행중인 태양전지의 현항을 소개하고, 미래의 연구를 예측해 보기위한 리뷰성 논문이다. 전극함몰형 태양전지의 공정결과를 기판별로 특성을 조사하고, 보다 저가 공정인 전극함몰형 양변 태양전지의 공정과 비교함으로서, 그 제작 가능성을 분석하였다. 양면 태양전지는 루프 타일형에 가장 적합한 것으로 사료되며, 변환효율은 18~20 %로 예상된다.