• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2009년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.419-420
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• 2009

The authors fabricated the nanostructural patterns on the surface of SiN antireflection layer of polycrystalline Si solar cell and the surface of crystalline Si wafer using anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) masks in an inductively coupled plasma(ICP) etching process. The AAO nanopattern mask has the hole size of about 70~80nm and an ave rage lattice constant of 100nm. The transferred nano-patterns were observed by the scanning electron microscope (SEM) and the enhancement of solar cell efficiency will be presented.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.77-79
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• 2009

Amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells, TCO/a-Si:H (p)/c-Si(n)/a-Si:H(n)/Al, are investigated. The influence of various parameters for the front structures was studied. We used thin (10 nm) a-Si:H(p) layers of amorphous hydrogenated silicon are deposited on top of a thick ($500{\mu}m$) crystalline c-Si wafer. This work deals with the influence of the a-Si:H(p) doping concentration on the solar cell performance is studied.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.264-267
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• 2007

It is important to reduce optical losses from front surface reflection to improve the efficiency of crystalline silicon solar cells. Surface texturing by isotropic etching with acid solution based on HF and $HNO_3$ is one of the promising methods that can reduce surface reflectance. Anisotropic texturing with alkali solution is not suitable for multicrystalline silicon wafers because of its various grain orientations. In this paper, we textured multicrystalline silicon wafers by simple wet chemical etching using acid solution to reduce front surface reflectance. After that, surface morphology of textured wafer was observed by Scanning Electron Microscope(SEM) and Atomic Force Microscope(AFM), surface reflectance was measured in wavelength from 400nm to 1000nm. We obtained 29.29% surface reflectance by isotropic texturing with acid solution in wavelength from 400nm to 1000nm for fabrication of multicrystalline silicon solar cells.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.45-50
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• 1984

결정면이 (100)인 실리콘 웨이퍼 위에 열확산(thermal diffusion)법을 이용하여 표면에 V형 흠이 형성된 N+P 태양전지를 제작하였다. (100) 실리콘 표면에 V형 홈을 형성시키기 위하여 이방성 부식용액으로는 etylendiamine, water, pyrocathecol 혼합용액을 사용하였다. 100mW/㎠의 조명아래에서 V형홈을 형성시킨 태양전지가 효율면에서 일반 평면 N+P 태양전지보다는 2.5∼3.5%, texturized 태양전지보다는 0.4∼0.6%정도의 증가를 보였다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.37-49
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• 2008

태양전지 기판의 원료인 폴리실리콘의 공급부족은 태양광발전산업의 비약적인 발전에 있어 최대 걸림돌이 되고 있다. 태양전지 제조에 충분한 순도로 폴리실리콘을 값싸게 제조할 수 있게 하는 공정기술의 개발은 태양광발전의 가격 경쟁력과 활용범위를 크게 증가시키는 중요한 계기가 될 수 있다. 본 총설에서는 태양전지용 폴리실리콘 제조를 위해 현재 이용 가능한 기술들을 정리해보고, 최근에 주목받고 있는 유동층 석출공정기술과 관련하여 응용범위 확대를 가로막고 있는 주요 기술적 장애요인에 대하여 중점적으로 소개하고자 한다.

• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.31-41
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• 2016

n-type PERT (passivated emitter, rear totally diffused) bifacial solar cells with boron and phosphorus diffusion as p+ emitter and n+ BSF (back surface field) have attracted significant research interest recently. In this work, the influences of wafer thickness, bulk lifetime, emitter, BSF on the photovoltaic characteristics of solar cells are discussed. The performance of the solar cell is determined by using one-dimensional solar cell simulation software PC1D. The simulation results show that the key role of the BSF is to decrease the surface doping concentration reducing the recombination and thus, increasing the cell efficiency. A lightly phosphorus doped BSF (LD BSF) was experimentally optimized to get low surface dopant concentration for n type bifacial solar cells. Pre-oxidation combined with a multi-plateau drive-in, using limited source diffusion was carried out before pre-deposition. It could reduce the surface dopant concentration with minimal impact on the sheet resistance.

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국태양에너지학회 2009년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.367-370
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• 2009

It is important to reduce a reflection of light as a solar cell is device that directly converts the energy of solar radiation to electrical energy in oder to improve efficiency of solar cells. The antireflection coating has proven effective in providing substantial increase in solar cell efficiency. This paper investigates the formation of thin film PSi(porous silicon) layer on the surface of crystalline silicon substrates without other ARC(antirefiection coating) layers. On the other hand the formation of $SO_{2}/SiN_x$ ARC layers on the surface of crystalline silicon substrates. After that, the structure of PSi and $SO_2/SiN_x$ ARC was investigated by SEM and reflectance. The formation of PSi layer and $SO_{2}/SiN_x$ ARC layers on the textured silicon wafer result about 5% in the wavelength region from 0.4 to $1.0{\mu}m$. It is achieved on the textured crystalline silicon solar cell that each efficiency is 14.43%, 16.01%.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.141-147
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• 2018

태양광 에너지는 깨끗하며 무한한 재생에너지의 한가지로 많은 관심을 받아왔다. 태양광 에너지는 다결정 실리콘 웨이퍼 혹은 단결정 실리콘 웨이퍼로 구성된 솔라셀에 의해서 전기에너지로 전환된다. 제조원가를 낮추기 위하여 한 개의 석영 도가니에 폴리실리콘의 충진 크기를 증가시키는 연구가 많이 개발되어 왔다. 충진 크기를 증가시키면, 쵸크랄스키 공정장비의 온도제어가 강한 멜트 대류 때문에 힘들어진다. 본 연구에서는 20 inch와 24 inch 석영도가니와 90 Kg, 120 Kg, 150 Kg, 200 Kg, 250 Kg의 다양한 폴리실리콘 충진 크기에서 시뮬레이션을 통해 장비 온도 프로파일을 얻었으며, 실제값과 비교하고 분석하였다. 시뮬레이션 온도 프로파일과 실제 온도프로파일이 잘 일치하였으며, 이로써 충진 사이즈가 증가할 경우, 실제온도 프로파일 최적화를 위해 시뮬레이션을 사용할 수 있게 되었다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제44회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.226-226
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• 2013

Si is a dominant solar material, which is the second most abundant element in the earth giving a benefit in the aspect in cost with low toxicity. However, the inherent limit of Si has an indirect band gap of 1.1 eV resulting in the limited optical absorption. Therefore, a critical issue has been raised to increase the utilization of the incident light into the Si absorber. The enhancement of light absorption is a crucial to improve the performances and thus relieves the cost burden of Si photovoltaics. For the optical aspect, an efficient design of a front surface, where the incident light comes in, has been intensively investigated to improve the performance of photon absorption. Lambertian light trapping can be attained when the light active surface is ideally rough to increase the optical length by about 50 compared to a planar substrate. This suggests that an efficient design may reduce thickness of the Si absorber from the conventional 100~300 ${\mu}m$ to less than 3 ${\mu}m$. Theoretically, a hole-array structure satisfies an equivalent efficiency of c-Si with only one-twelfth mass and one-sixth thickness. Various approaches have been applied to improve the incident light utilization in a Si absorber using textured structures, periodic gratings, photonic crystals, and nanorod arrays. We have designed hole and pillar structured Si absorbers. Four-different Si absorbers have been simultaneously fabricated on an identical Si wafer with hole arrays or pillar arrays at a fixed depth of 2 ${\mu}m$. We have found that the significant enhanced solar cell performances both for the hole arrayed and pillar arrayed Si absorbers compared to that of a planar Si wafer resulting from the effective improvement in the quantum efficiencies.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제26권11호
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• pp.841-845
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• 2013

We give a textured front on silicon wafer for high-efficiency solar cells by using micro contact printing method which uses PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) silicon rubber as a stamp and SAM (self assembled monolayer)s as an ink. A random pyramidal texturing have been widely used for a front-surface texturing in low cost manufacturing line although the cell with random pyramids on front surface shows relatively low efficiency than the cell with inverted pyramids patterned by normal optical lithography. In the past two decades, the micro contact printing has been intensively studied in nano technology field for high resolution patterns on silicon wafer. However, this promising printing technique has surprisingly never applied so far to silicon based solar cell industry despite their simplicity of process and attractive aspects in terms of cost competitiveness. We employ a MHA (16-mercaptohexadecanoic acid) as an ink for Au deposited $SiO_2/Si$ substrate. The $SiO_2$ pattern which is same as the pattern printed by SAM ink on Au surface and later acts as a hard resist for anisotropic silicon etching was made by HF solution, and then inverted pyramidal pattern is formed after anisotropic wet etching. We compare three textured surface with different morphology (random texture, random pyramids and inverted pyramids) and then different geometry of inverted pyramid arrays in terms of reflectivity.