Application of CBD-Zinc Sulfide Film as an Antireflection Coating on Very Large Area Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cell

Gangopadhyay, U.; Kim, K.; Dhungel, S. K.; Saha, H.; Yi, J.

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Volume 2007 | Article ID 018619 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/18619

Application of CBD-Zinc Sulfide Film as an Antireflection Coating on Very Large Area Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cell

U. Gangopadhyay,^1,2K. Kim,²S. K. Dhungel,²H. Saha,¹and J. Yi²

Academic Editor: Armin Aberle

Received01 Apr 2007

Revised18 Sept 2007

Accepted20 Dec 2007

Published30 Mar 2008

Abstract

The low-cost chemical bath deposition (CBD) technique is used to prepare CBD-ZnS films as antireflective (AR) coating for multicrystalline silicon solar cells. The uniformity of CBD-ZnS film on large area of textured multicrystalline silicon surface is the major challenge of CBD technique. In the present work, attempts have been made for the first time to improve the rate of deposition and uniformity of deposited film by controlling film stoichiometry and refractive index and also to minimize reflection loss by proper optimization of molar percentage of different chemical constituents and deposition conditions. Reasonable values of film deposition rate (12.13 Å′/min.), good film uniformity (standard deviation <1), and refractive index (2.35) along with a low percentage of average reflection (6-7%) on a textured mc-Si surface are achieved with proper optimization of ZnS bath. 12.24% efficiency on large area (125 mm × 125 mm) multicrystalline silicon solar cells with CBD-ZnS antireflection coating has been successfully fabricated. The viability of low-cost CBD-ZnS antireflection coating on large area multicrystalline silicon solar cell in the industrial production level is emphasized.

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