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Investigations Into B-O Defect Formation-Dissociation In Cz-Silicon And Their Effect On Solar Cell Performance, Prakash M. Basnyat
Investigations Into B-O Defect Formation-Dissociation In Cz-Silicon And Their Effect On Solar Cell Performance, Prakash M. Basnyat
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About 30% of the total market share of industrial manufacture of silicon solar cells is taken by single crystalline Czochralski (CZ) grown wafers. The efficiency of solar cells fabricated on boron-doped Czochralski silicon degrades due to the formation of metastable defects when excess electrons are created by illumination or minority carrier injection during forward bias. The recombination path can be removed by annealing the cell at about 200° C but recombination returns on exposure to light.
Several mono-crystalline and multi-crystalline solar cells have been characterized by methods such as laser beam induced current (LBIC), Four-Probe electrical resistivity etc. to better …
Extension To Pv Optics To Include Front Electrode Design In Solar Cells, Debraj Guhabiswas
Extension To Pv Optics To Include Front Electrode Design In Solar Cells, Debraj Guhabiswas
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Proper optical designing of solar cells and modules is of paramount importance towards achieving high photovoltaic conversion efficiencies. Modeling softwares such as PV OPTICS, BIRANDY and SUNRAYS have been created to aid such optical designing of cells and modules; but none of these modeling packages take the front metal electrode architecture of a solar cell into account.
A new model, has been developed to include the front metal electrode architecture to finished solar cells for optical calculations. This has been implemented in C++ in order to add a new module to PV OPTICS (NREL’s photovoltaic modeling tool) to include …