High-deposition rate a-Si:H n-i-p solar cells grown by HWCVD

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作者
Nelson, BP [1 ]
Iwaniczko, E [1 ]
Mahan, AH [1 ]
Wang, Q [1 ]
Xu, YQ [1 ]
Crandall, RS [1 ]
Branz, HM [1 ]
机构
[1] Natl Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO 80401 USA
关键词
amorphous materials; silicon; solar cells; deposition process;
D O I
10.1016/S0040-6090(01)01274-3
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
We grow hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) solar cells in a device structure denoted as SS/n-i-p/ITO. We grow all the a-Si:H layers by hot-wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD) and the indium-tin-oxide (ITO) by reactive evaporation. We axe able to grow HWCVD i-layer materials that maintain an AM1.5 photoconductivity-to-dark-conductivity ratio of 10(5) at deposition rates up to 130 Angstrom /s. We have put these high-deposition rate i-layer materials into SS/n-i-p/ITO devices and light-soaked them for greater than or equal to 1000 h under AM1.5 conditions. We obtain stabilized solar cell efficiencies of 5.5% at 18 Angstrom /s, 4.8% at 35 Angstrom /s, 4.1% at 83 Angstrom /s and 3.8% at 127 Angstrom /s. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:292 / 297
页数:6
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