Effect of TCO coated substrate and p-layer on performance of microcrystalline silicon solar cells

Author

Ray, Swati ; Jana, Tapati ; Das, Chandan ; Das, Rajesh

Author_Institution

Energy Res. Unit, Indian Assoc. for the Cultivation of Sci., Calcutta, India

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

18-18 May 2003

Firstpage

1784

Abstract

Undoped microcrystalline silicon films have been deposited by VHF-PECVD on glass and on glass/p-type /spl mu/c-Si:H (300 /spl Aring/) layer. The p-layer acts as seeding layer and changes the structure of i-layer as observed by Raman studies. Performance of single junction solar cell has been studied varying p-layer thickness and crystallinity of i-layer. The effect of different p layer on the performance of solar cell also has been investigated. The textured ZnO has been developed by magnetron sputtering under Ar+O/sub 2/ ambient. Effect of substrate coated with different transparent conducting oxides (SnO/sub 2/, ZnO and SnO/sub 2//ZnO double layer) on the performance of microcrystalline Si solar cells have been studied and correlated with the properties of the TCO.

Keywords

Raman spectra; amorphous semiconductors; elemental semiconductors; hydrogen; plasma CVD; semiconductor growth; semiconductor thin films; silicon; solar cells; 300 /spl Aring/; PECVD; Raman observation; Si:H; SnO/sub 2/; SnO/sub 2/-ZnO; ZnO; glass/p-type microcrystalline Si:H layer; i-layer crystallinity; magnetron sputtering; microcrystalline silicon solar cells; p-layer thickness; seeding layer; single junction solar cell; textured ZnO; transparent conducting oxide coated substrate; undoped microcrystalline silicon films;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 2003. Proceedings of 3rd World Conference on

Conference_Location

Osaka, Japan

Print_ISBN

4-9901816-0-3

Type

conf

Filename

1306280