Aluminum-added silver paste (silver/aluminum paste) has been used as metallization for p + emitter of n-type solar cells, because the addition of aluminum powder to the silver paste can effectively decrease contact resistance between the paste metallization and the p + emitter.
Aluminum alloying in silicon, produces gettering effect by the movement of metallic impurities towards the aluminum layer due to the higher solubility of metals in aluminum [ 14 ]. Therefore, BSF structure plays an important role on carrier lifetime of solar cells which is another crucial parameter for achieving high conversion efficiencies.
These finding can suggest that boron content in aluminum pastes is supportive to improve the bulk quality of silicon solar cells. However, poor performance of such pastes on solar cell fabrication is needed to be investigated further for higher efficiencies. 1.
The aluminum powder is dissolved by the glass melt, precipitating together onto the surface of the emitter. The obvious metallic luster can be seen in Fig. 1 (i), which is caused by the grain enlargement of Ag powder during the sintering process.
N-PERT solar cells using improved firing-through Al paste on the front boron emitter were carried out, named Cell 6. The improved Al paste was mainly prepared by adding appropriate content of Si powder and using Al powder with a particle size of 1–2 μm.
The dispersed boron can be diffuse towards the front side of silicon solar cells which can deteriorate the photovoltaic properties. It is important to consider this phenomenon in further studies in order to improve the performance of silicon solar cells using boron-doped aluminum pastes.
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