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Hydrogen Passivation and Laser Doping for Silicon Solar Cells

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Editors: Brett Hallam 1 ; Catherine Chan 2
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Publication Year: 2021

Photovoltaic electricity generation is a rapidly growing industry, and a key pillar of a decarbonised energy system. In modern solar cells, laser technology is used to form localised structures such as a selective emitter through doping or to locally ablate dielectric layers for contact definition. A critical factor is the ability to passivate the laser-induced defects to prevent premature charge carrier recombination reducing the cell efficiency. Hydrogenation is such a passivation technique. The exact mechanisms have until recently been poorly understood, so this timely reference covers the recent breakthroughs in the understanding of hydrogen passivation. The book addresses key technologies for improving the efficiency of solar cells, including the industry-dominating PERC concept with an added rear passivation layer to reduce recombination. Coverage includes hydrogen passivation mechanisms, bulk and surface defect passivation, hydrogenation of light-induced defects, potential negative impacts of hydrogen, and laser doping for rapid diffusion and for selective emitter formation. This work also provides brand new results that enable low-quality silicon to be used for heterojunction applications and could pave the way for future low-cost, high-efficiency silicon solar cell technologies featuring passivated contacts to be fabricated on p-type wafers. This work is indispensable for researchers in the field of photovoltaic energy, in academia as well as industry.

Inspec keywords: passivation; elemental semiconductors; laser ablation; hydrogenation; hydrogen; diffusion; semiconductor heterojunctions; solar cells; silicon

Other keywords: localised structures; rapid diffusion; photovoltaic energy; surface defect passivation; Si; contact definition; p-type wafers; selective emitter formation; exact mechanisms; low-quality silicon; decarbonised energy system; low-cost high-efficiency silicon solar cell technologies; photovoltaic electricity generation; hydrogen passivation mechanisms; laser technology; light-induced defect hydrogeneration; premature charge carrier recombination; dielectric layer ablation; bulk defect passivation; H; laser-induced defect passivation; laser doping; industry-dominating PERC concept; rear passivation layer; heterojunction applications

Subjects: Impurity and defect levels in elemental semiconductors; Monographs, and collections; Surface treatment (semiconductor technology); Solar cells and arrays; Handbooks and dictionaries; Elemental semiconductors; Laser materials processing; Surface treatment and degradation in semiconductor technology; Laser materials processing; Photoelectric conversion; solar cells and arrays; Textbooks; General electrical engineering topics

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