Crystalline silicon thin-film solar cells on ZrSiO4 ceramic substrates
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The development of a low-cost substrate is one of the major technological challenges for crystalline Si thin-film solar cells. Zirconium silicate (ZrSiO 4 ) ceramics is a material which can meet the demanding physical requirements as well as the cost goals. Thin microcrystalline Si films were deposited by atmospheric pressure CVD on ZrSiO 4 -based ceramic substrates coated with barrier layers. The Si film was transferred into a multicrystalline grain structure by zone-melting recrystallization (ZMR). Film growth was analyzed in situ and correlated with substrate and barrier layer properties. Thin-film solar cells were fabricated from selected coarse-grained films. The best solar cell achieved an efficiency of 8.3% with a short circuit current density of 26.7 mA/cm 2 . The effective diffusion length obtained from internal quantum efficiency measurements was about 25 μm.
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OpenAlex topics: Thin-Film Transistor Technologies · Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence · Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies
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