A Novel Analysis Of Amorphous/Crystalline Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells Using Spectroscopic Ellipsometer

Spectroscopic Ellipsometer를 이용한 a-Si:H/c-Si 이종접합 태양전지 박막 분석

  • 지광선 (LG전자기술원 소자재료연구소 SE그룹) ;
  • 어영주 (LG전자기술원 소자재료연구소 SE그룹) ;
  • 김범성 (LG전자기술원 소자재료연구소 SE그룹) ;
  • 이헌민 (LG전자기술원 소자재료연구소 SE그룹) ;
  • 이돈희 (LG전자기술원 소자재료연구소)
  • Published : 2008.06.25

Abstract

It is very important that constitution of good hetero-junction interface with a high quality amorphous silicon thin films on very cleaned c-Si wafer for making high efficiency hetero-junction solar cells. For achieving the high efficiency solar cells, the inspection and management of c-Si wafer surface conditions are essential subjects. In this experiment, we analyzed the c-Si wafer surface very sensitively using Spectroscopic Ellipsometer for < ${\varepsilon}2$ > and u-PCD for effective carrier life time, so we accomplished < ${\varepsilon}2$ > value 43.02 at 4.25eV by optimizing the cleaning process which is representative of c-Si wafer surface conditions very well. We carried out that the deposition of high quality hydrogenated silicon amorphous thin films by RF-PECVD systems having high density and low crystallinity which are results of effective medium approximation modeling and fitting using spectroscopic ellipsometer. We reached the cell efficiency 12.67% and 14.30% on flat and textured CZ c-Si wafer each under AM1.5G irradiation, adopting the optimized cleaning and deposition conditions that we made. As a result, we confirmed that spectroscopic ellipsometry is very useful analyzing methode for hetero-junction solar cells which need to very thin and high quality multi layer structure.

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