• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.59.1-59.1
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• 2011

BSF 후면전계효과는 태양전지의 개방전압 증가를 결정하며 효율에 매우 중요한 요인이다. 본 연구에서는 p-type에서의 후면전계효과를 확인하기 위해 PC1D 시뮬레이션(Simulation)을 통해 p+ 영역의 표면농도와 깊이에 따른 전기적 특성을 분석 하였다. 최적효율을 찾기위해 면저항을 $30{\Omega}/{\square}$으로 고정하고 깊이와 표면 농도값을 가변하였다. 최적화 결과 표면농도값이 작아지고 깊이가 커질수록 효율이 좋아지는 경향이 나타났으며 Peak doping=$5{\times}10^{18}cm^{-3}$, Juction depth=12.52um에서 최고효율 19.14%를 얻을 수 있었다. 본 시뮬레이션을 바탕으로 실제 태양전지 제작 과정에 적용 가능하다. p-type 태양전지 제작에서 후면의 p+ 영역의 깊이를 증가시키고, 표면 농도를 낮추는 공정을 통해 효율향상을 기대 할 수 있다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.06a
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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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1999.05a
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• pp.597-600
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• 1999

A solar cell conversion efficiency was degraded by grain boundary effect in polycrystalline silicon To reduce grain boundary effect, we performed a preferential grain boundary etching, POC$_3$ n-type emitter doping, and then ITO film growth on poly- Si. Among the various preferential etchants, Schimmel etch solution exhibited the best result having grain boundary etch depth higher than 10 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$. RF magnetron sputter grown ITO films showed a low resistivity of 10$^{-4}$ $\Omega$ -cm and high transmittance of 85 %. With well fabricated poly-Si solar cells, we were able to achieve as high as 15 % conversion efficiency at the input power of 20 mW/$\textrm{cm}^2$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.335-336
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• 2009

저가격 고효율 실리콘 태양전지를 구현하기 위하여 핵심적으로 적용되는 공정인 SOD(Spin on Doping) 확산공정 최적화에 관하여 연구하였다. n-type 도핑 물질로는 인(P509)을 사용하였으며, Spinning 속도와 Spinning 시간을 각 3000 rpm, 30 초로 고정하고 급속 열처리로에서 확산 온도와 확산 시간을 $800\;^{\circ}C\;{\sim}\;950\;^{\circ}C$, 2 분에서 20 분까지 가변하며 확산공정을 실시하였다. 4-Point Probe 장비로 에미터 표면 저항을 측정한 결과 확산 온도 $850\;^{\circ}C$에서 5분간 열처리 하여 확산 공정을 하였을 때 저가의 고효율 실리콘 태양전지를 구현하는데 적용 하기위한 $30\;{\sim}\;50\;{\Omega}$-sq의 에미터 표면 저항을 만족 시키는 $36\;{\Omega}$-sq의 값을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2015.03a
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• pp.320-323
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 18 atoms unit cell graphene film을 기반으로 한 graphene/h-BN heterostructure의 bandgap 변화에 대해 EDISON LCAODFTLab simulator의 DFT기반 전자구조계산을 통해 알아보았다. Graphene 상에 BN-doping 형태로 주어진 여러 heterostructure의 전자구조계산을 통해 태양전지의 이론적 최적효율을 나타내는 1.2eV 정도의 값을 갖는 구조를 찾을 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.65-69
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• 2017

This paper presents a Technology-CAD (TCAD) simulation of the characteristics of crystalline Si pillar array solar cells. The junction depth and the surface concentration of the solar cells were optimized to obtain the targeted sheet resistance of the emitter region. The diffusion model was determined by calibrating the emitter doping profile of the microscale silicon pillars. The dimension parameters determining the pillar shape, such as width, height, and spacing were varied within a simulation window from ${\sim}2{\mu}m$ to $5{\mu}m$. The simulation showed that increasing pillar width (or diameter) and spacing resulted in the decrease of current density due to surface area loss, light trapping loss, and high reflectance. Although increasing pillar height might improve the chances of light trapping, the recombination loss due to the increase in the carrier's transfer length canceled out the positive effect to the photo-generation component of the current. The silicon pillars were experimentally formed by photoresist patterning and electroless etching. The laboratory results of a fabricated Si pillar solar cell showed the efficiency and the fill factor to be close to the simulation results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2014.02a
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• pp.481.2-481.2
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• 2014

Bulk hetero junction (BHJ) polymer solar cell (PSCs) is one of the most promising fields as alternative energy source. Especially, the development of new p-type conjugated polymer is one of the main issues to get core technology. In this study, we investigated the chemical doping effects of incorporating 3,6-carbazole units into conjugated polymers based on 2,7-carbazole. We assessed the structural effects of this chemical doping by measuring the photovoltaic device performance of the copolymers with and without annealing. Note that the use of nanostructures in the bulk heterojunction layer could be a major obstacle to commercialization because nano-morphologies are frequently unstable at high temperatures. Therefore, the development of thermally stable polymer:fullerene blends with optimized PCEs is an important goal in this area of research. We studied the morphologies of the copolymers incorporating 3,6-carbazole units resulting from thermal annealing to investigate the effects of the difference between the T g values of the 2,7-carbazole unit and the 3,6-carbazole unit.

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.56-59
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• 2011

The process conditions for high efficiency industrial crystalline Si solar cells with selective emitter were optimized. In the screen printed solar cells, the sheet resistance must be 50-60V/sq. because of metal contact resistance. But the low sheet resistance causes the increase of the recombination and blue response at the short wavelength. Therefore, the screen printed solar cells with homogeneous emitter have limitations of efficiency, and this means that the selective emitter must be used to improve cell efficiency. This work demonstrates the feasibility of a commercially available selective emitter process, based on screen printing and conventional diffusion process. Now, we improved cell efficiency from 18.29% to18.45% by transition of heavy emitter pattern and shallow emitter doping condition.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.454-455
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• 2009

Selective emitter structure have an important research subject for crystalline silicon solar cells because it is used in production for high efficiency solar cells. A selective emitter structure with highly doped regions underneath the metal contacts is widely known to be one of the most promising high-efficiency solution in solar cell processing. Since most of the selective emitter processes require expensive extra masking and double steps process. Formation of selective emitters is not cost effective. One method that satisfies these requirements is the method of screen-printing with a phosphorus doping paste. In this paper we researched two groups of selective emitter structure process. One was using dopant paste, and the other was using solid source, in order to compare their uniformity, sheet resistance and performance condition time.

• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.60-65
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• 2020

In perovskite solar cells with planar heterojunction configuration, selection of proper charge-transporting layers is very important to achieve stable and efficient device. Here, we developed solution processible Cu doped NiO_x (Cu:NiO_x) thin film as a hole-transporting layer (HTL) in p-i-n structured methylammonium lead trihalide (MAPbI₃) perovskite solar cell. The transmittance and thickness of NiO_x HTL is optimized by control the spin-coating rate and Cu is additionally doped to improve the surface morphology of undoped NiO_x thin film and hole-extraction properties. Consequently, a perovskite solar cell containing Cu:NiO_x HTL with optimal doping ratio of Cu exhibits a power conversion efficiency of 14.6%.