Commercially, the efficiency for mono-crystalline silicon solar cells is in the range of 16–18% (Outlook, 2018). Together with multi-crystalline cells, crystalline silicon-based cells are used in the largest quantity for standard module production, representing about 90% of the world's total PV cell production in 2008 (Outlook, 2018).
Except for niche applications (which still constitute a lot of opportunities), the status of crystalline silicon shows that a solar technology needs to go over 22% module efficiency at a cost below US$0.2 W −1 within the next 5 years to be competitive on the mass market.
Crystalline silicon is the most important material for solar cells. However, a common problem is the high RI of doped silicon and more than 30% of incident light is reflected back from the surface of crystalline silicon .
Meantime, the quality of crystalline silicon material also seriously affects the photoelectric conversion efficiency, so elevating the quality of industrial silicon is another direction of future development. Trends in photoelectric conversion efficiency of crystalline silicon solar cells over the past few years.
One of the reasons why crystalline silicon takes up a critical proportion in the photovoltaic market is that silicon technology has been significantly developed as stimulated by the microelectronics industry.
Schematic diagram of crystalline silicon solar cells. For ideal solar cells, four main assumptions are proposed: there exists no transport loss, and the body recombination is minimal. Under the mentioned assumptions, the minimum Auger recombination and good free carrier collection can be obtained with the intrinsic substrate material.
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