50-μm thick flexible dopant-free interdigitated-back-contact silicon heterojunction solar cells with front MoOx coatings for efficient antireflection and passivationShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: Optics Express, E-ISSN 1094-4087, Vol. 30, no 12, p. 21309-21323
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Abstract [en]
We demonstrate experimentally a flexible crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cell (SC) based on dopant-free interdigitated back contacts (IBCs) with thickness of merely 50 µm for, to the best of our knowledge, the first time. A MoOx thin film is proposed to cover the front surface and the power conversion efficiency (PCE) is boosted to over triple that of the uncoated SC. Compared with the four-time thicker SC, our thin SC is still over 77% efficient. Systematic studies show the front MoOx film functions for both antireflection and passivation, contributing to the excellent performance. A double-interlayer (instead of a previously-reported single interlayer) is identified at the MoOx/c-Si interface, leading to efficient chemical passivation. Meanwhile, due to the large workfunction difference, underneath the interface a strong built-in electric field is generated, which intensifies the electric field over the entire c-Si active layer, especially in the 50-µm thick layer. Photocarriers are expelled quickly to the back contacts with less recombined and more extracted. Besides, our thin IBC SC is highly flexible. When bent to a radius of 6 mm, its PCE is still 76.6% of that of the unbent cell. Fabricated with low-temperature and doping-free processes, our thin SCs are promising as cost-effective, light-weight and flexible power sources.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Optica Publishing Group , 2022. Vol. 30, no 12, p. 21309-21323
National Category
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-315240DOI: 10.1364/OE.459207ISI: 000810533400088PubMedID: 36224853Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85131229495OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-315240DiVA, id: diva2:1681214
Note
QC 20220706
2022-07-062022-07-062023-02-27Bibliographically approved