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Large-area multicrystalline silicon solar cell fabrication using reactive ion etching (RIE)
Jinsu Yoo,Gwonjong Yu,Junsin Yi +2 more
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In this paper, a large-area multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) solar cell was fabricated by masking less surface texturing using a SF 6 /O 2 reactive ion etching.About:
This article is published in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells.The article was published on 2011-01-01. It has received 142 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Crystalline silicon & Reactive-ion etching.read more
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Black silicon: fabrication methods, properties and solar energy applications
Xiaogang Liu,Xiaogang Liu,Paul R. Coxon,Marius Peters,Bram Hoex,Jacqueline M. Cole,Jacqueline M. Cole,Derek J. Fray +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the use of black silicon (BSi) as an anti-reflection coating in solar cells is examined and appraised, based upon strategies towards higher efficiency renewable solar energy modules.
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Black Silicon Photovoltaics
Martin Otto,Michael Algasinger,Howard M. Branz,Benjamin Gesemann,Thomas Gimpel,Kevin Füchsel,Kevin Füchsel,Thomas Käsebier,Stefan Kontermann,Svetoslav Koynov,Xiaopeng Li,Volker Naumann,Jihun Oh,Jihun Oh,Alexander Sprafke,Johannes Ziegler,Matthias Zilk,Ralf B. Wehrspohn,Ralf B. Wehrspohn +18 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an overview of the fabrication methods of black silicon, their resulting morphologies, and a quantitative comparison of their optoelectronic properties is presented, where the optical absorption and the minority carrier lifetime are used as benchmark parameters.
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Nanostructure Formation and Passivation of Large-Area Black Silicon for Solar Cell Applications
Liu Yaoping,Tao Lai,Hailing Li,Yan Wang,Zengxia Mei,Huili Liang,Zhilei Li,Fengming Zhang,Wenjing Wang,Andrej Yu. Kuznetsov,Xiaolong Du +10 more
TL;DR: A black m-Si cell with efficiency of 15.8% was achieved by using SiO(2) and SiN(X) bilayer passivation structure, indicating that passivation plays a key role in large-scale manufacture of black silicon solar cells.
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Next-generation multi-crystalline silicon solar cells: Diamond-wire sawing, nano-texture and high efficiency
TL;DR: In this paper, a nano-texture technique has been developed to achieve 1831% efficient diamond-wire sawn multi-crystalline silicon (DWS mc-Si) solar cells on a pilot production line.
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18.45%‐Efficient Multi‐Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells with Novel Nanoscale Pseudo‐Pyramid Texture
Ye Xiaoya,Shuai Zou,Kexun Chen,Jianjiang Li,Jie Huang,Cao Fang,Xusheng Wang,Lingjun Zhang,Xue-Feng Wang,Mingrong Shen,Xiaodong Su +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a nanoscale pseudo-pyramid textured multi-crystalline silicon (Pmc-Si) solar cells are fabricated by using a metal-catalyzed chemical etching plus a post alkaline etching on an industrial production line.
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19.8% efficient “honeycomb” textured multicrystalline and 24.4% monocrystalline silicon solar cells
TL;DR: In this paper, a hexagonally symmetric honeycomb surface texture was used to reduce reflection loss in multicrystalline silicon solar cells and increase the cell's effective optical thickness.
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The black silicon method: a universal method for determining the parameter setting of a fluorine-based reactive ion etcher in deep silicon trench etching with profile control
TL;DR: In this paper, the Black Silicon Method was used to find the processing conditions needed for a vertical wall in a Reactive Ion Etchers (RIE); two parallel plate reactors and a hexode.
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Ray-trace simulation of light trapping in silicon solar cell with texture structures
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors performed ray-tracing simulation for a light-trapping structure in a silicon crystalline solar cell and a silicon thin film solar cell with a thickness of 20μm.
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Texturisation of multicrystalline silicon wafers for solar cells by reactive ion etching through colloidal masks
TL;DR: In this article, texturing of multicrystalline silicon solar cells by reactive ion etching (RIE) is demonstrated as an attractive solution for lowering the reflectance of solar cells.
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Use of porous silicon antireflection coating in multicrystalline silicon solar cell processing
TL;DR: In this paper, the use of porous silicon (PS) as an antireflection coating (ARC) in simplified processing for multicrystalline silicon solar cells is presented.