一维衍射光栅和一维光子晶体组成的硅薄膜太阳能电池背反射器

设计了一种由一维衍射光栅和一维光子晶体组成的用于薄膜硅太阳能电池的背反射器,采用勒让德多项式展开法对一维光子晶体和三角形光栅结构进行了参数优化,并对400~1 200 nm入射电磁波的反射率进行了模拟计算。结果表明:在高反射率的一维光子晶体作用下,利用衍射光栅可以得到大倾角的反射光,有效地延长光子在电池吸收体的传播路径,使其得到充分吸收。衍射光栅加光子晶体结构的背反射器可以大幅提高电池的捕光能力,提高太阳能电池的转化效率。     

Effects of controllable process factors on Al rear surface bumps in Si solar cells

High efficiency solar cells require good back surface field passivation and high back reflectance in the rear Al region. In module processes, wafer-based solar cell can break through stress during soldering uneven rear aluminum surfaces - a serious problem that affects throughput. This work examined rear surfaces with respect to controllable process factors such as ramping and cooling rates during rapid thermal processing, and the fineness of aluminum powder used in the screen-printed paste. A faster ramp up rate resulted in a uniform temperature gradient between the aluminum and silicon surfaces. As a results, the bumps on the aluminum surface were small and of high density. Fine aluminum metal powder in the paste for screen-printing contact points resulted in large distribution, high density bumps. Bumps formed during cooling in metallization, their sizes and densities were dependent the on uniformity of the aluminum and silicon liquid wetting of the silicon surface.     

高效钙钛矿-有机本体异质结杂化串联太阳能电池

制备了一种有机铅卤钙钛矿-有机本体异质结杂化串联太阳能电池。采用紫外可见吸收光谱、原子力显微镜对薄膜形貌进行了表征。结果表明:有机本体异质结层可以有效改善钙钛矿的表面形貌, 增强了可见光的吸收。优化后的串联结构电池的短路电流可达19.14mA/cm², 开路电压为0.76V, 光电转换效率达到了6.54%。钙钛矿电池和有机本体异质结电池串联结构可以同时提高短路电流及填充因子, 二者具有较好的相容性和协同作用。     

Back contact–absorber interface modification by inserting carbon intermediate layer and conversion efficiency improvement in Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 solar cell

Carbon layers have been employed as intermediate layers between Mo back contact and Cu₂ZnSn(S_1–xSe_x)₄(CZTSSe) absorber film prepared by sol–gel and post‐selenization method. Carbon layers with appropriate thickness can significantly inhibit the formation of MoSe₂ and voids at bottom region of the absorber, and therefore reduce the series resistance remarkably. The conversion efficiency can be boosted by the introducing of the carbon layer from 6.20% to 7.24% by enhancement in short current density, fill factor and open voltage in comparison to the reference sample without carbon layer. However, excess thickness of carbon layer will worse device performance due to the deteriorated absorber crystallinity. In addition, the time‐resolved photoluminescence analysis shows that inserting the carbon layer with suitable thickness does not introduce recombination and lower minority lifetime. (© 2015 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH &Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Al纳米颗粒增强微晶硅薄膜太阳电池光吸收的模拟研究

利用价格低廉、性能优良的金属纳米颗粒增强太阳电池的光吸收具有广阔的应用前景. 通过建立三维数值模型, 模拟了微晶硅薄膜电池前表面周期性分布的Al纳米颗粒阵列对电池光吸收的影响, 并对其结构参数进行了优化. 模拟结果表明: 对于球状Al纳米颗粒阵列, 影响电池光吸收的关键参数是周期P与半径R的比值, 或者说是颗粒的表面覆盖度; 当P/R=4–5时, 总的光吸收较参考电池提高可达20%. 与球状颗粒相比, 优化后的半球状Al纳米颗粒阵列可获得更好的陷光效果, 但后者对颗粒半径R的变化较敏感. 另外, 结合电场分布, 对电池光吸收增强的物理机理进行了分析.     

采用PEABr添加剂获得高效且稳定的碳基CsPbBr3太阳能电池

全无机CsPbBr₃钙钛矿材料因其本征稳定性好、成本低廉从而在光伏领域展现出巨大的应用潜力,但目前CsPbBr₃太阳能电池的光电转换效率仍远低于其他体系的钙钛矿太阳能电池.本文以无空穴传输层结构的碳基CsPbBr₃全无机钙钛矿电池作为研究对象,以多步旋涂法为基础,通过在PbBr₂(DMF)溶液中添加2-苯乙胺溴盐(PEABr)来调控CsPbBr₃薄膜的结晶质量,降低薄膜缺陷态密度,钝化晶粒间界,并对其中的关键工艺参数包括CsBr的用量(旋涂次数)、旋涂PbBr₂薄膜时的衬底预热温度以及退火温度进行了优化.最终在大气环境下获得了兼具稳定和高效的无空穴传输层结构的碳基CsPbBr₃太阳能电池,器件的光电转换效率达到8.25%,并在无封装条件下保存1500 h仍可保持90%以上的效率,对于进一步拓展CsPbBr₃钙钛矿电池的优化设计思路具有重要意义.     

微波退火对聚合物太阳能电池性能的提高

利用微波对基于poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT)和 -phenyl-C61-buytyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) 的体异质结太阳能电池进行退火处理,提高了器件的效率。使用的微波频率为2.45 GHz,当处理时间为10 min时,获得的短路电流为9.13 mA/cm²,开路电压为0.63 V,能量转化效率为3.21%,其性能参数完全可以与普通真空干燥箱退火相比拟。研究了微波对活性层的作用,从微波退火处理后的UV-Vis吸收谱和SEM图发现,微波退火主要改善了活性层的粗糙度,提高了相分离程度,有利于激子在界面处的解离和载流子的传输。     

19.4%‐efficient large‐area fully screen‐printed silicon solar cells

We demonstrate industrially feasible large‐area solar cells with passivated homogeneous emitter and rear achieving energy conversion efficiencies of up to 19.4% on 125 × 125 mm² p‐type 2–3 Ω cm boron‐doped Czochralski silicon wafers. Front and rear metal contacts are fabricated by screen‐printing of silver and aluminum paste and firing in a conventional belt furnace. We implement two different dielectric rear surface passivation stacks: (i) a thermally grown silicon dioxide/silicon nitride stack and (ii) an atomic‐layer‐deposited aluminum oxide/silicon nitride stack. The dielectrics at the rear result in a decreased surface recombination velocity of S_rear = 70 cm/s and 80 cm/s, and an increased internal IR reflectance of up to 91% corresponding to an improved J_sc of up to 38.9 mA/cm² and V_oc of up to 664 mV. We observe an increase in cell efficiency of 0.8% absolute for the cells compared to 18.6% efficient reference solar cells featuring a full‐area aluminum back surface field. To our knowledge, the energy conversion efficiency of 19.4% is the best value reported so far for large area screen‐printed solar cells. (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Porous silicon layers prepared by electrochemical etching for application in silicon thin film solar cells

In this paper, multilayer structures of porous silicon were fabricated by using electrochemical etching and characterized for its optical properties and surface morphology. Samples of monolayer of porous silicon were grown to study the characteristics of porous layer formation with respect to applied current density, etching time and hydrofluoric acid concentrations. Photoluminescence peaks of red emission at wavelength 695 and 650 nm were observed from multilayer porous silicon structures. By atomic force microscopy measurement, hillocks like surface were clearly observed within the host material, which confirmed the formation of pores.     

Thermoelectric properties of stannite-phase CuZn2AS4 (CZAS; A=Al,Ga and In) nanocrystals for solar energy conversion applications

The current study aimed to comprehensively investigate structural, electronic, optical and transport properties of quaternary semiconductor CuZn₂AS₄ (CZAS; A=Al, Ga and In) nanocrystals (NCs). Based on energy considerations, the stannite structure (I-42m; No. 121) is found to be more stable than the kesterite (I-4; No.82) and wurtzite (P6₃mc; No.186) type structures. By means of hybrid functional calculations, these nanocrystals have direct band gap of 0.81–1.71 eV with a high absorption coefficient of >10⁴ cm^?1, which are well-suited for use in solar energy-conversion applications. Some of the latest advances in applications of these nanocrystals in thermoelectric applications are also highlighted in the current study. It is observed that transport coefficients of these materials are found to be nearly direction independent and isotropic. All three samples are p-type conductors at room temperature. Especially, the Seebeck coefficient of CuZn₂AlS₄ is even larger than that of CuZn₂GaS₄ and CuZn₂InS₄ under the studied carrier concentration and temperature region. The maximum figure of merit (ZT) reaches 0.982 (0.977), 0.984 (0.974) and 0.53 (0.955) for p-type (n-type) CuZn₂AlS₄, CuZn₂GaS₄, and CuZn₂InS₄, respectively, at 300 K. The high Seebeck coefficients, high figure of merit and low thermal conductivities make these systems good candidates for high-efficiency thermoelectric conversion applications.