KR101444957B1 - Solar cell - Google Patents
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Abstract
A solar cell includes a semiconductor part forming a pn junction, an electrode formed on the semiconductor part and connected to a bus bar, and an electrode for transferring a carrier formed in the semiconductor part to the bus, Wherein the electrode has a cross sectional area of a first portion located at a first distance from the bus bar and a cross sectional area of a second portion located at a second distance that is different from the first distance. Accordingly, the cross-sectional area of the electrode is changed according to the distance between the bus bars, thereby improving the collecting ability and the transporting ability of the carrier through the electrode, thereby improving the operation efficiency of the solar cell.
Solar cell, rear junction, electrode, cross-sectional area
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The present invention relates to a solar cell
With the recent depletion of existing energy resources such as oil and coal, interest in alternative energy to replace them is increasing. Among them, solar cells generate electric energy from solar energy, and they are environmentally friendly and have an advantage of long life as well as infinite solar energy.
Solar cells are divided into silicon solar cell, compound semiconductor solar cell and tandem solar cell according to the raw material, and silicon solar cell is mainstream.
The silicon solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate and a semiconductor emitter layer made of semiconductors having different conductive types such as p-type and n-type, a conductive transparent electrode layer formed on the semiconductor emitter layer, A front electrode formed on the conductive transparent electrode layer, and a rear electrode formed on the semiconductor substrate. Therefore, a p-n junction is formed at the interface between the semiconductor substrate and the semiconductor emitter layer.
When sunlight enters the solar cell having such a structure, electrons and holes are generated in a silicon semiconductor doped with an n-type or p-type impurity by a photovoltaic effect. For example, electrons are generated in a majority carrier in an n-type semiconductor emitter layer made of an n-type silicon semiconductor, and holes are generated in a majority carrier in a p-type semiconductor substrate made of a p-type silicon semiconductor. Electrons and holes generated by the photovoltaic effect are attracted toward the n-type semiconductor emitter layer and the p-type semiconductor substrate, respectively, and are transferred to the front electrode and the rear electrode, and current flows through the electrodes. At this time, the conductive transparent electrode layer prevents reflection of incident sunlight and improves the conductivity of the carrier so that generated electrons can easily move to the front electrode.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is directed to improving the operation efficiency of a solar cell.
A solar cell according to one aspect of the present invention includes a semiconductor portion forming a pn junction and an electrode formed on the semiconductor portion and connected to the bus bar and transferring a carrier formed in the semiconductor portion to the bus, Sectional area of the first part located at the first distance from the bus bar and the sectional area of the second part located at the second distance far from the first distance are different from each other
And the cross-sectional area of the first portion is larger than the cross-sectional area of the second portion.
The cross-sectional area of the electrode may vary in magnitude in proportion to the distance from the bus bar.
It is preferable that the cross-sectional area of the electrode increases in size as it approaches the bus bar.
The cross-sectional area may vary depending on at least one of a width and a height of the electrode.
The carrier may be one of an electron and a hole.
The electrode includes a first electrode for transferring electrons and a second electrode for transferring holes. The bus bar includes a first bus connected to the first electrode, a second bus bar connected to the second electrode, Wherein the first electrode has a first cross-sectional area that varies in size along a distance from the first bus bar and the second electrode has a second cross-sectional area that varies in size along a distance from the second bus bar .
It is preferable that the first and second cross sectional areas increase in size as they approach the first and second bus bars, respectively.
The first cross-sectional area of the first electrode located at the same distance from the first bus bar and the second cross-sectional area of the second electrode may be different from each other.
The size of the cross-sectional area of the first electrode located at the first distance from the first bus bar may be smaller than the size of the cross-sectional area of the second electrode located at the first distance from the second bus bar.
At least one of the width and the height of the first and second electrodes may vary according to the distance from the first and second bus bars.
The first and second electrodes may be formed on the same side of the semiconductor portion.
A solar cell according to another aspect of the present invention includes a first doping portion of a first conductivity type formed on a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a second doping portion of another conductivity type of another of the first conductivity type, A first electrode formed on the doping portion, a second electrode formed on the second doping portion, a first bus bar receiving a carrier from the first electrode, and a second bus bar receiving a carrier from the second electrode And the cross-sectional area of the first electrode portion located on the same line and the cross-sectional area of the second electrode portion are different from each other.
The cross-sectional area may vary depending on at least one of a width and a height of the electrode.
According to this aspect of the present invention, the cross-sectional area of the electrode is changed according to the distance between the bus bar and the electrode, thereby improving the collecting ability and the transporting ability of the carrier through the electrode, thereby improving the operation efficiency of the solar cell.
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and similar parts are denoted by like reference characters throughout the specification.
In the drawings, the thickness is enlarged to clearly represent the layers and regions. Like parts are designated with like reference numerals throughout the specification. When a layer, film, region, plate, or the like is referred to as being "on" another portion, it includes not only the case directly above another portion but also the case where there is another portion in between. Conversely, when a part is "directly over" another part, it means that there is no other part in the middle. Also, when a part is formed as "whole" on the other part, it means not only that it is formed on the entire surface (or the front surface) of the other part but also not on the edge part.
An example of a solar cell according to an embodiment of the present invention will now be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG.
FIG. 1 is a plan view of a rear surface of an example of a solar cell according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the solar cell of FIG. 1 along a line II-II.
1 and 2, a
The upper surface of the
As the upper surface of the
The structure of the
A front
The front
An
The
A
The
The
The
Unlike the present embodiment, when the
A rear
The rear
The rear
The plurality of
The plurality of
The first and
The shape of the
That is, the cross-sectional area of the
The
The width w2 and the height d2 of each
The heights d1 and d2 and the widths w1 and w2 of the first and
For example, the heights d1 and d2 of the first and second solar cells may be several hundreds of angstroms to several hundreds of micrometers, respectively, and the variation amounts? D1 and? D2 of the heights of the first and second solar cells, May be several hundreds of micrometers.
The widths w1 and w2 of the first and second solar cells may be in the range of about 1 m to about 10 cm Lt; / RTI >
In this embodiment, the cross-sectional areas of the first and
Alternatively, however, the cross-sectional area of the first and
The
The
In this way, when the first and
Carriers such as electrons and holes collected in the first and
At this time, if the widths and heights of the first and second electrodes connected to the respective bus bars are constant and the cross-sectional area of the first and second electrodes is constant regardless of the positional change, regardless of the increasing amount of carriers, I have the ability. Therefore, when the amount of carriers to be transported is larger than the transporting capability of the first and second electrodes, the load increases and heat generation occurs, and the carrier transport ability of the first and second electrodes also deteriorates, .
However, as the cross-sectional area of the first and
The first and
In FIG. 1, for convenience, the number of the first and
In the
That is, when light is irradiated into the p-n junction of the
Therefore, the electrons and holes transferred through the
The cross sectional area of the first and
1 and 3, both the width and the height of the first and
Another example of the solar cell according to the embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 to 8. FIG.
4 is a cross-sectional view of the solar cell of FIG. 4 along the line VV, and FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of a solar cell according to an embodiment of the present invention FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of the solar cell of FIG. 6 taken along line VII-VII. 8 is a plan view of a back surface of another example of a solar cell according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 and 5, the solar cell changes only the width of each of the first and
6 and 7, the solar cell is connected to the first and
In yet another example, the solar cell may have different cross-sectional areas in at least two portions of each
In Figs. 4-8, the electrodes connected to the same bus bar have the same shape and the same cross-sectional area on the same line. However, at least one of the width, the height, and the variation amount between the electrodes connected to the different bus bars is different, and the sectional areas of the
However, the
Alternatively, the cross-sectional area of the first and
In addition, the present embodiment is described based on a solar cell having a rear junction type electrode structure in which both first and
For example, the present invention can be applied to a solar cell in which a plurality of first electrodes for transferring electrons are formed on the front surface of a semiconductor substrate, and a second electrode for transferring holes is formed on the entire rear surface of the semiconductor substrate. In this case, the cross-sectional area of the first electrode increases as the shape of the first electrode according to the present embodiment becomes closer to the connected bus bar. Therefore, this embodiment is applicable to a solar cell having an electrode for transferring a carrier.
While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, Of the right.
1 is a plan view of a rear surface of an example of a solar cell according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the solar cell of FIG. 1 taken along line II-II.
3 is an enlarged view of a part of the first and second electrodes shown in Fig.
4 is a plan view of a back surface of another example of a solar cell according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a cross-sectional view of the solar cell of FIG. 4 taken along line V-V.
6 is a plan view of a back surface of another example of a solar cell according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of the solar cell of FIG. 6 taken along line VII-VII.
8 is a plan view of a back surface of another example of a solar cell according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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110: semiconductor device 120: front shield
130: antireflection film 141: first doping portion
142: second doping unit 150: rear shield
161: first electrode 162: second electrode
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