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Improving poor fill factors for solar cells via light-induced plating

Xing Zhao, Jia Rui, Ding Wuchang, Meng Yanlong, Jin Zhi and Liu Xinyu

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Abstract: Silicon solar cells are prepared following the conventional fabrication processes, except for the metallization firing process. The cells are divided into two groups with higher and lower fill factors, respectively. After light-induced plating (LIP), the fill factors of the solar cells in both groups with different initial values reach the same level. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images are taken under the bulk silver electrodes, which prove that the improvement for cells with a poor factor after LIP should benefit from sufficient exploitation of the high density silver crystals formed during the firing process. Moreover, the application of LIP to cells with poor electrode contact performance, such as nanowire cells and radial junction solar cells, is proposed.

Key words: solar cells

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    Received: 20 August 2015 Revised: 20 March 2012 Online: Published: 01 September 2012

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      Xing Zhao, Jia Rui, Ding Wuchang, Meng Yanlong, Jin Zhi, Liu Xinyu. Improving poor fill factors for solar cells via light-induced plating[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2012, 33(9): 094008. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/33/9/094008 Xing Z, Jia R, Ding W C, Meng Y L, Jin Z, Liu X Y. Improving poor fill factors for solar cells via light-induced plating[J]. J. Semicond., 2012, 33(9): 094008. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/33/9/094008.Export: BibTex EndNote
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      Xing Zhao, Jia Rui, Ding Wuchang, Meng Yanlong, Jin Zhi, Liu Xinyu. Improving poor fill factors for solar cells via light-induced plating[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2012, 33(9): 094008. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/33/9/094008

      Xing Z, Jia R, Ding W C, Meng Y L, Jin Z, Liu X Y. Improving poor fill factors for solar cells via light-induced plating[J]. J. Semicond., 2012, 33(9): 094008. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/33/9/094008.
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      Improving poor fill factors for solar cells via light-induced plating

      doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/33/9/094008
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      National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.11104319,51172268 and 2009CB939703

      • Received Date: 2015-08-20
      • Accepted Date: 2012-02-21
      • Revised Date: 2012-03-20
      • Published Date: 2012-08-21

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