Black silicon (b-Si) nanotextures are of interest for Si solar cells because of their enhanced light trapping properties. However, the wide range of complex nanotextured b-Si surface morphologies makes a systematic investigation of b-Si solar cells challenging. A comprehensive performance review is necessary to determine the promising b-Si nanotextures for solar cell applications. In this work, we use artificial-intelligence approaches to assist in compiling a systematic and highly refined performance review of b-Si solar cells. We also perform numerical simulations of electrical properties for various nanotextured b-Si morphologies. We find that the weighted average reflectance (WAR) is an effective surface morphology metric for a wide range of surface textures. By correlating solar cell performance parameters to WAR, we show that multicrystalline Si solar cell efficiency can be improved with b-Si nanotexturing, and this is predominately attributed to an increase in short-circuit current density via the blue response improvement. We also show that some b-Si nanotextures can improve the performance of monocrystalline Si solar cells. Device simulations show that the electrical performance of hierarchical (combination of microtexture and nanotexture) and inverted-pyramidal b-Si nanotextures and microtextures can be comparable to or even better than random pyramids. As such, these textures show great potential for monocrystalline Si solar cells.
In this work, single-side aluminum oxide (Al 2 O 3 ) deposition enabled by a new tubetype industrial plasma-assisted atomic layer deposition (PEALD) technique is presented to meet the increasingly stringent requirements for high-efficiency solar cell mass production. Extremely low emitter saturation current densities, J 0e , down to 15 fA/cm 2 are achieved on an industrial textured boron emitter with a sheet resistance of 104 Ω/sq, passivated by PEALD Al 2 O 3 /PECVD SiN x stack after firing. An implied open-circuit voltage of up to 721 mV is obtained on symmetrical lifetime samples. The underlying passivation mechanisms of this new tube-type PEALD Al 2 O 3 are investigated by contactless corona-voltage measurements. The results indicatethat the superior passivation is mainly attributed to a low interface defect density down to 1.1 Â 10 11 cm À2 eV À1 and a high negative fixed charge density up to 4.5 Â 10 12 cm À2 . Simulations show that the obtained J 0e is close to its intrinsic limit.Lastly, the developed tube-type PEALD Al 2 O 3 is applied to industrial TOPCon solar cells achieving an average cell efficiency above 24% and a maximum V oc of 707 mV.This work shows that the record level of surface passivation available from lab-scale PEALD reactors is now available in a flexible high-throughput industrial PEALD platform, which opens a new route for mass production of high-efficiency industrial TOPCon solar cells with a lean process at low costs.
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