Back to Search
Start Over
High-efficiency solar cell using a thin porous silicon layer
- Source :
- Thin Solid Films. 297:299-303
- Publication Year :
- 1997
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1997.
-
Abstract
- The performance improvement of solar cells due to the formation of a porous silicon layer on deep-junction n+/p silicon structures has been investigated. The photovoltaic properties of two identical sample groups with and without porous silicon layer are compared. More than a 50% improvement in Isc and about a 5% increase in Voc was demonstrated in structures with PS layer. No change in the fill factor was observed. The performance of the porous silicon solar cell has been found to be sensitive to the PS layer thickness. Optimal thickness was determined using the electrical measurement. The main result is that the photovoltaic energy conversion efficiency of solar cells can be increased by the PS layer. This low-cost PS formation process can be applied in the photovoltaic cell technology as a standard procedure. © 1997 Elsevier Science S.A.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
Organic solar cell
business.industry
Metals and Alloys
Surfaces and Interfaces
Hybrid solar cell
Quantum dot solar cell
Polymer solar cell
Surfaces, Coatings and Films
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
law.invention
Monocrystalline silicon
Solar cell efficiency
law
Solar cell
Materials Chemistry
Optoelectronics
Plasmonic solar cell
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00406090
- Volume :
- 297
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Thin Solid Films
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........e86b5ba5964da68ccda44001660ca5b4