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Status and Progress of High-efficiency Silicon Solar Cells

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High-Efficiency Solar Cells

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High-efficiency Si solar cells have attracted more and more attention from researchers, scientists, engineers of photovoltaic (PV) industry for the past few decades. Many high-quality researchers and engineers in both academia and industry seek solutions to improve the cell efficiency and reduce the cost. This desire has stimulated a growing number of major research and research infrastructure programmes, and a rapidly increasing number of publications in this filed. This chapter reviews materials, devices and physics of high-efficiency Si solar cells developed over the last 20 years. In this chapter there is a fair number of topics, not only from the material viewpoint, introducing various materials that are required for high-efficiency Si solar cells, such as base materials (FZ-Si, CZ-Si, MCZ-Si and multi-Si), emitter materials (diffused emitter and deposited emitter), passivation materials (Al-back surface field, high–low junction, SiO2, SiO x , SiN x , Al2O3 and a-Si:H), and other functional materials (antireflective layer, TCO and metal electrode), but also from the device and physics point of view, elaborating on physics, cell concept, development and status of all kinds of high-efficiency Si solar cells, such as passivated emitter and rear contact (PERC), passivated emitter and rear locally diffused (PERL), passivated emitter and rear totally diffused (PERT), Pluto, interdigitated back-contacted (IBC), emitter-wrap-through (EWT), metallization-wrap-through (MWT), Heterojunction with intrinsic thin-layer (HIT) and so on. Some representative examples of high-efficiency Si solar cell materials and devices with excellent performance and competitive advantages are presented.

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