Review on metallization in crystalline silicon solar cells

N Balaji, MC Raval, S Saravanan - Solar Cells, 2020 - books.google.com
Solar cell market is led by silicon photovoltaics and holds around 92% of the total market.
Silicon solar cell fabrication process involves several critical steps which affects cell …

Tuneable and spectrally selective broadband reflector–modulated photonic crystals and its application in solar cells

A Soman, A Antony - Solar Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
One dimensional photonic crystal has been developed as a broadband dielectric reflector,
the stopband of which could be selectively tuned based on absorption spectrum of the …

Thermal Stability of Copper–Nickel and Copper–Nickel Silicide Contacts for Crystalline Silicon

AS Kale, W Nemeth, CL Perkins, D Young… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Copper is a low-cost, low-damage alternative to Ag paste for front-side metallization of
crystalline Si (c-Si) solar cells, but requires conductive diffusion barriers like Ni or NiSi …

Enhancing Adhesion and Reducing Ohmic Contact through Nickel–Silicon Alloy Seed Layer in Electroplating Ni/Cu/Ag

Z Wang, H Liu, D Chen, Z Wang, K Wu, G Cheng… - Materials, 2024 - mdpi.com
Due to the lower cost compared to screen-printed silver contacts, the Ni/Cu/Ag contacts
formed by plating have been continuously studied as a potential metallization technology for …

Study of annealing temperature for Ni/Cu/Ag plated front contact single crystalline solar cells

SH Lee, DW Lee, A ur Rehman… - IEEE Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ni/Cu/Ag contact formed by plating has continuously been studied as a future metallization
technique of solar cells due to the lower cost of material and better electrical performance …

Study of nickel silicide as a copper diffusion barrier in monocrystalline silicon solar cells

A Kale, E Beese, T Saenz, E Warren… - 2016 IEEE 43rd …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
NiSi as a conductive diffusion barrier to silicon has been studied. We demonstrate that the
NiSi films formed using the single step annealing process are as good as the two step …

Comprehensive comparison between the experimental and simulated characteristics of the mono-crystalline silicon solar cell using SCAPS-1D

SN Ali, MB Zahran, AAZ Diab - SVU-International Journal of …, 2023 - svusrc.journals.ekb.eg
-In this paper, a potassium hydroxide solution was used to etch the surface of the mono-
crystalline silicon wafer, the sample was prepared at 0.33 Mol, solution temperature 82° C …

Metal diffusion barriers for GaAs solar cells

RH van Leest, P Mulder, GJ Bauhuis… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study accelerated ageing testing (AAT), J–V characterization and TEM imaging in
combination with phase diagram data from literature are used to assess the potential of Ti …

Microcharacterization of Interface Oxide Layer on Laser-Structured Silicon Surfaces of Plated Ni–Cu Solar Cells

A Büchler, B Grübel, V Arya… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Light-induced plating on laser-structured passivation layer openings is an alternative
method to silver screen printing for fabrication of the front-side metal grid on silicon solar …

Impact of post-deposition plasma treatment on surface passivation quality of silicon nitride films

SS Saseendran, MC Raval… - IEEE Journal of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exposing a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition-deposited silicon nitride (SiNx)
film to an inert gasoxidizing plasma ambient results in a significant reduction in background …