ABSTRACT: In this contribution we present the latest results of our experiments regarding the use of aluminum foil as rear side metallization for solar cells with dielectric passivation and laser fired contacts (LFC). In this approach the foil is fixed during the contacting process onto the wafer by local alloying of an IR laser.
The ability to tune the material composition, film thickness with excellent conformality, allow low-temperature processing, and in-situ real-time monitoring makes this technique very appealing for a wide range of applications. In this review, we focus on the application of ALD layers in a wide range of solar cells.
The application of ALD-based materials in c-Si solar cells started with Al 2 O 3, a very effective surface passivation layer which was found to improve the efficiency of c-Si solar cells significantly [8, 9]. Further studies on ALD surface passivation layers and charge carrier transport materials followed.
Although back-to-back loading can be used to avoid deposition on the non-target side of the wafer, there remains some wrap-around, typically in the order of 2–5 mm from the edge of the wafer. To et al. studied the impact of wrap around AlO x for industrial PERC (passivated emitter rear contact) solar cells .
Roy et al. carried out DFT calculations and numerical simulation of ALD-grown WS 2 incorporated on a-Si based solar cell and predicted an efficiency potential of 23.26%, Voc of 843 m V and Jsc of 33.49 mAcm −2, confirming the potential of ALD-grown 2D materials for solar cell applications. 7. Conclusion
The improvements in the mobility of two to three orders of magnitude suggest that ALD is an optimum technique to uniformly coat QDs, infill the pores of QD films, and achieve passivation of QD surface trap states for optimal device efficiency [246, 247]. 5.2. ALD-grown TMOs as a passivation layer for QD solar cells
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