• DocumentCode
    3710961
  • Title

    Impact of front TCO layer in substrate-type thin-film microcrystalline silicon solar cells

  • Author

    Hitoshi Sai;Keigo Maejima;Takuya Matsui;Takashi Koida;Koji Matsubara;Michio Kondo;Yoshiaki Takeuchi;Shuichiro Sugiyama;Hirotaka Katayama;Isao Yoshida

  • Author_Institution
    Research Center for Photovoltaic Technologies (RCPVT), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, 305-8568, Japan
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    In the recent 3 years, power conversion efficiencies in thin-film microcrystalline silicon solar cells were remarkably improved from 10.1% to 11.8%. Front transparent conductive oxide films play an important role in this efficiency improvement. In this study, the impact of the front transparent conductive oxide films were investigated by comparing microcrystalline silicon solar cells with In2O3:Sn films grown by sputtering and ZnO:B films grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. The origins of the improvement in open circuit voltages and fill factor in solar cells were investigated and discussed.
  • Keywords
    "Films","Photovoltaic cells","Silicon","Substrates","Photovoltaic systems","Indium tin oxide"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2015 IEEE 42nd
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355677
  • Filename
    7355677
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3710961