Thin film silicon solar cells on liquid crystal polymer substrate

Author

Takeda, Takatoshi ; Kondo, Michio ; Matsuda, Akihisa

Author_Institution

Japan Gore-Tex Inc., Tsukuba, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

18-18 May 2003

Firstpage

1580

Abstract

We have developed a liquid crystal polymer (LCP) film applicable to the substrate in the roll-to-roll manufacturing of thin film silicon solar cells. LCP film has excellent and balanced properties of high thermal resistance, high dimensional stability and low moisture absorption compared to other super engineering plastics such as PES or PAR. Microcrystalline silicon solar cells with a nip structure (/spl sim/2 /spl mu/m) are fabricated on the textured LCP substrate at 180/spl deg/C, demonstrating a high short-circuit current density (25.8 mA/cm/sup 2/) due to effective light trapping. As a result, we have achieved an efficiency of 8.1%.

Keywords

current density; elemental semiconductors; liquid crystal polymers; plasma CVD; polymer films; semiconductor growth; semiconductor thin films; silicon; solar cells; thermal expansion; thermal resistance; -2 micron; 180 degC; Si; dimensional stability; light trapping; liquid crystal polymer substrate; microcrystalline silicon solar cells; moisture absorption; roll-roll manufacturing; short circuit current density; super engineering plastics; texture; thermal resistance; thin film silicon solar cells;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 2003. Proceedings of 3rd World Conference on

Conference_Location

Osaka, Japan

Print_ISBN

4-9901816-0-3

Type

conf

Filename

1306229