WO2007043881A1 - Method of manufacturing n-type multicrystalline silicon solar cells - Google Patents
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- Multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) solar cells are usually made of p-type substrate because of its longer diffusion length of the minority carrier than n-type's.
- the silicon feedstock for the solar cell industry largely depends on the feedstock for the Integrated Circuit (IC) industry. This is because at the manufacture of silicon, the high quality Si is reserved for the IC industry, and the lesser quality Si forms the feedstock for the solar cell industry. Due to a recent shortage of the whole silicon feedstock, it is desirable to utilize the n-type feedstock more effectively.
- solar cells made of n-type substrates may even have superior properties as compared to those made of p- type substrates, because of the relatively longer lifetime of the minority carrier in n- type Si.
- HIT Hetero-junction with Intrinsic Thin-layer
- highly doped p-type thin film is deposited on the front side (light incident side) and highly doped n-type thin film is deposited on the back side of a single crystalline silicon substrate.
- the thin films for both sides are deposited at a relatively low temperature less than 250°C.
- a method of manufacturing a solar cell comprising: - providing a n-type multicrystalline silicon substrate having a front side and a back side;
- the SiN can protect the phosphorus-diffused layer from a NaOH solution and a dilute fluoric acid which maybe used for the pre-treatment of the formation of the thin film heterojunction.
- the phosphorus diffusion layer at the back side of the substrate maybe provided by first diffusing phosphorus into both sides of the substrate to render a diffusion layer on the front side and on the back side, and then removing the diffusion layer at the front side.
- the invention also relates to a solar cell manufactured by the above mentioned method.
- Figure 2 shows a flow chart of a manufacturing process corresponding to the formation of figures 1 A- 1 H ;
- Figure 5 shows a flow chart of a solar cell manufacturing process according to a second embodiment of the invention
- Figure 6 shows the resulting solar cell of the manufacturing process of figure 5;
- Figure 8 shows a flow chart of a manufacturing process according to a fourth embodiment of the invention.
- the substrate 1 is annealed at a temperature of more than 5O 0 C higher than the deposition temperature, see step 204.
- the annealing may for example be performed at temperatures between 700-800 0 C for about several seconds.
- the annealing temperature does not exceed 1000 0 C.
- the phosphorus-diffused layer 2' on the front side is removed using for example a 10% NaOH solution at a temperature of about 9O 0 C.
- the result is shown in figure ID.
- the silicon nitride film 3 at the back side is rarely etched by the NaOH solution, consequently the phosphorus- diffused layer on the back side is protected from the NaOH solution.
- the surface may be textured by a chemical solution like 3% NaOH or by another method like reactive ion etching.
- step 206 the front surface of the substrate is cleaned using a so-called "RCA-cleaning" for semiconductor, which includes the chemical process OfNH 4 OH/
- a thin film silicon layer of p-type 4 is deposited on the front surface using PECVD at a temperature between 150-250 0 C with mixed gases OfH 2 ZSiH 4 ZB 2 H 6 .
- the thin film silicon layer 4 may comprise microcrystalline silicon ( ⁇ c-Si) or amorphous silicon (a-Si). Also, the thin film silicon layer 4 may comprise either a single p-type layer or multiple layers of p-type silicon and intrinsic layers.
- the deposition temperature may be even higher than 25O 0 C as long as it is lower than that of the annealing process, see step 204.
- the deposition method may be other like hotwire CVD.
- 240 wafers with a thickness between 200-240 ⁇ m comprising a n- type mc-Si substrate with a resistivity of 0.5-3 ohm-cm were prepared. These wafers were sliced out from one square column with the size (width and depth) of 125 xl25 mm 2 , which was cut out from one casted ingot. The wafers were numbered #1 to #240 according to the position in the original ingot. They were divided into six groups wherein every sixth wafer was placed in a specific group. Each group had 40 wafers. Hereafter, the groups are referred to as group B, group C, group D, group E, group F, group G wherein:
- Group B is a typical example of the invention.
- IH is fabricated through the processes shown in figure 2.
- the specific process condition at each process step is as follows: step 202: Phosphorus diffusion at the temperature of 830 ⁇ 850°C with phosphorus glass coating.
- step 203 Microwave remote plasma with quartz tube at the temperature of 350 ⁇ 400°C.
- step 204 Annealing at the temperature of 650 ⁇ 750°C for 5-20 seconds.
- step 205 Non textured surface after the removal of the front phosphorus-doped layer.
- step 206 Surface cleaning with "RCA-cleaning”.
- step 207 p-type/intrinsic a-Si deposition with the parallel plate plasma-enhanced CVD of 13.56 MHz at the temperature of 200 0 C with mixed gases Of SiHVH 2 ZB 2 H 6 .
- step 208 Magnetron sputtering of ITO at the temperature of 200 0 C.
- step 209 Contact patterning with screen printing using printable etching paste.
- step 210 Screen printing of silver paste and firing at 200
- Group C was a reference group with a conventional HIT structure made by a conventional process.
- a flow chart of this fabricating process is shown in figure 3.
- a n-type multicrystalline silicon substrate is provided.
- a cleaning step 306 follows which is the same as step 206 of figure 2.
- a step 307 follows in which a p-type silicon thin film is deposited as was done in step 207 of figure 2.
- a step 307' a n-type/intrinsic a-Si deposition by way of a parallel plate plasma-enhanced CVD using 13.56 MHz at a temperature of 200 0 C with mixed gases Of SiHVH 2 ZPH 3 is performed.
- an ITO layer is deposited on both sides of the substrate.
- electrodes or formed on both sides see step 310.
- FIG. 4 shows the result of the processing steps of figure 3.
- the solar cell comprises a n-type multicrystalline silicon substrate 401.
- a thin film silicon layer of p-type 404 is fabricated.
- an indium tin oxide (ITO) layer 405 is fabricated.
- ITO indium tin oxide
- front contact 406 are formed.
- a n- type/intrinsic a-Si thin film deposition layer 414 is fabricated.
- an ITO layer is deposited, see layer 415.
- Group D is a group of solar cells fabricated according to an embodiment, where the solar cells do not have a back side silicon nitride film.
- the fabricating process is shown in figure 5. This process is simpler than that of the manufacturing process of group B because the relatively expensive SiN process is eliminated.
- This embodiment starts with a step 501 in which an n-type multicrystalline silicone substrate is provided.
- a step 502 phosphorus diffusion layers are formed on both sides of the substrate.
- the front side diffusion layer is removed.
- a cleaning step 506 is performed identical to step 206. This step is followed by step 507 in which a p-type silicon thin film is deposited as was done in step 207, see figure 2.
- a step 508 is performed which is identical to step 208. Finally, electrodes are formed on both sides, see step 510.
- the resulting solar cell structure is shown in figure 6.
- the solar cell comprises a n-type multicrystalline substrate 601. At the back side a phosphorus diffusion layers 602 is formed. At the front side, a thin film silicon layer of p-type 604 is deposited forming the heterojunction. An indium tin oxide (ITO) layer 605 is deposited on the thin film silicon layer 604 at the front side.
- the solar cell further comprises front contacts 606 and back contacts 607.
- the hydrogen content in the SiN film 3 is less than 0.3 at%, while that of group B is between 5-10 at%.
- the hydrogen content in the SiN film 3 was determined by measuring the absorption of infrared light by Si-H and N-H bonds in the SiN film 3 using a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer.
- a flow chart of the fabricating process is shown in figure 7.
- the specific processing steps of this embodiment are the same as those of group B, see figure 2, except for a step 703 and 704.
- SiN is deposited with thermal CVD at a temperature of 800 0 C using mixed gases of SiH4/ NH3.
- an annealing step is performed at a temperature between 850-900 0 C for a period between 5-20 seconds.
- the hydrogen content in SiN film was between 20-25 at%, while that of group B was between 5-10 at%.
- the fabricating process is the same as that used for group B except for the deposition temperature at the deposition of the SiN film, see also step 203 in figure 2.
- the deposition temperature at group F is between 130-170 0 C.
- the annealing step after the SiN deposition is eliminated.
- a flow chart of the fabrication process is shown in figure 8. As compared to the flow chart of figure 2, step 204 is eliminated. Steps 802 to 810 are identical to steps 202 to 210, respectively.
- Table I shows the average values of the cell properties of each group, wherein Jsc is the short circuit current, Voc is the open circuit voltage and FF is the Fill Factor.
- This invention provides a method of manufacturing a HIT structure for multicrystalline silicon substrate made of n-type multicrystalline silicon substrates.
- impurities like iron included during the ingot-casting are gettered and the bulk property is improved.
- the phosphorus- diffused layer also serves as a back surface field to raise the voltage and a back contact with low resistivity.
- the hydrogen content of the dielectric film described above is between 0.5 -15%.
- the high temperature processes of the phosphorus diffusion, dielectric film deposition, and hydrogen passivation are carried out prior to the formation of thin film heterojunction. Therefore, heating the thin film at higher than its deposition temperature after the deposition can be avoided, and the quality of the thin film is maintained.
- SiN silicon nitride
- SiN can protect the phosphorus-diffused layer from NaOH solution and dilute fluoric acid which is required for the pre-treatment of the formation of the thin film heterojunction. Consequently, this invention makes it possible to combine the high temperature processes with the formation of a heterojunction.
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