Nanoscale SiOx Tunnel Oxide Deposition Techniques and Their Influence on Cell Parameters of TOPCon Solar Cells
- Authors
- Padi, S.P.[Padi, S.P.]; QUDDAMAH, K. M.[QUDDAMAH, KHOKHAR MUHAMMAD]; Chowdhury, S.[Chowdhury, S.]; Cho, E.-C.[Cho, E.-C.]; Yi, J.[Yi, J.]
- Issue Date
- Oct-2021
- Publisher
- Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
- Keywords
- Chemical oxidation; Ozone oxidation; PECVD; SiOx; Thermal oxidation; Tunnel oxide
- Citation
- Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials, v.22, no.5, pp.557 - 566
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- SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
- Volume
- 22
- Number
- 5
- Start Page
- 557
- End Page
- 566
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/skku/handle/2021.sw.skku/91118
- DOI
- 10.1007/s42341-021-00356-7
- ISSN
- 1229-7607
- Abstract
- The main goal of solar cell technology is to attain high efficiency, long durability, mass-production, cost-effectiveness, and made with eco-friendly materials. Among the various crystalline silicon solar cell technologies, Tunneling Oxide Passivated Contact (TOPCon) solar cell has its unique style in terms of the structure and carrier transport manner, which predominately decreases the metal contact recombination and gives 1-D carrier transport. A very high efficiency of 26% for TOPCon solar cells has been achieved with the industrial screen print technology and obtained high cell parameter values of Voc and fill factor as 732.3 mV and 84.3% respectively. The tunnel oxide thickness (maintaining < 2 nm) in the TOPCon has its prior impact on the efficiency and electrical parameters of the cell. To obtain the preferable thickness of the tunnel oxide layer various deposition techniques have been reported in the literature. SiOx is the most widely used tunnel oxide material for TOPCon solar cells to date. In this review, different deposition methods that were used for the SiOx tunnel oxide layer such as chemical oxidation, ozone oxidation, thermal oxidation, and plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) are elaborated. Moreover, the effect of the deposition conditions on the cell parameters in different techniques are also discussed briefly. Furthermore, the development of TOPCon solar cells and the latest reports that were used different tunnel oxide materials in finding an alternative to SiOx tunnel oxide is discussed. © 2021, The Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers.
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