Effect of the interface glass on electrical performance of screen printed Ag thick-film contacts of Si solar cells

Yaping Zhang; Yunxia Yang; Jianhua Zheng; Guorong Chen; Chen Cheng; James C.M. Hwang; Boon S. Ooi; Andriy Kovalskiy; Himanshu Jain

doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2010.03.112

Effect of the interface glass on electrical performance of screen printed Ag thick-film contacts of Si solar cells

Yaping Zhang, Yunxia Yang^*, Jianhua Zheng, Guorong Chen, Chen Cheng, James C.M. Hwang, Boon S. Ooi, Andriy Kovalskiy, Himanshu Jain

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Glasses with compositions (40 - x)PbO - xZnO - 60(B₂O ₃ - SiO₂) (x = 5, 10, 15, 20) have been prepared. Substitution of ZnO for PbO increased glass bandgap (E_g) and crystallization ability greatly. Crystalline phases of bulk glasses after rapid thermal processing (RTP) were identified by X-ray diffraction (XRD). Transmission line model (TLM) was employed to measure the electrical performance of Ag electrodes screen printed on polycrystalline Si substrates using Ag thick-film pastes and by RTP. The conductivity (σ) decreased while specific contact resistance (ρ_c) was not monotonic varied with increasing ZnO content. The correlation between electrical performance and glass barrier formed on the Ag gridline and Si emitter interface has been investigated.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	e111-e113
Journal	Thin Solid Films
Volume	518
Issue number	24 SUPPL.
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2010.03.112
State	Published - Oct 1 2010

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai (project 05dz12019 ). We thank Shanghai Perfect Energy Co., Ltd. for the help in the fabrication of test cells. YZ also thanks the NSF's IMI-NFG for the exchange visit (DMR-0409588).

Keywords

Ag/Si contacts
Barrier
Glass
Photovoltaic
Polycrystalline Si

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Surfaces and Interfaces
Surfaces, Coatings and Films
Metals and Alloys
Materials Chemistry

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