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Nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si), sometimes also known as microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si), is a form of porous silicon. It is an allotropic form of silicon with paracrystalline structure—is similar to amorphous silicon (a-Si), in that it has an amorphous phase. Where they differ, however, is that nc-Si has small grains of crystalline silicon within the amorphous phase.
The invention provides a solar cell and a manufacturing method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of semiconductor devices. The solar cell comprises a silicon substrate and a semiconductor layer, the silicon substrate comprises a first surface and a second surface which are opposite, the semiconductor layer is located on the first surface, the first semiconductor layer comprises a second structural region and a first structural region, and the crystallization degree of the first structural region is larger than that of the second structural region; wherein the second structural region is closer to the first surface than the first structural region, and the first semiconductor layer comprises at least one of amorphous silicon, nanocrystalline silicon or microcrystallinesilicon. The semiconductor layer has a crystallization structure, and the contact resistance between the semiconductor layer and the conductive material layer can be reduced, so that the current transmission characteristic is improved, the energy consumption in the current collection process is reduced, and the cell efficiency is improved.
The invention discloses a combined passivation back contact battery which comprises an N-type siliconwafer, a second intrinsic amorphous silicon layer, a microcrystallinesilicon layer, an anti-reflection layer, a second semiconductor opening region, a first semiconductor opening region and a transition region, the anti-reflection layer is a single-layer amorphous silicon carbonitride layer or a laminated structure composed of an amorphous siliconcarbide layer and an amorphous silicon carbonitride layer, and the second semiconductor opening area is composed of a first intrinsic amorphous silicon layer, a P-type amorphous silicon layer, a transparent conductive film and a metalelectrode which are sequentially arranged on the back face of the silicon wafer. The first semiconductor opening area is composed of a tunneling oxide layer, an N-type polycrystalline silicon layer, a transparent conductive film and a metalelectrode which are sequentially arranged on the back face of the silicon wafer, and an opening is etched in the transparent conductive film on the surface of the transition area to form an insulation groove. Amorphous silicon carbonitride or amorphous silicon carbide / amorphous silicon carbonitride laminated layers are adopted as the anti-reflection layers, so that reflection loss is reduced, the reliability and durability of the cell are improved, and the conversion efficiency of the cell is improved.
The invention belongs to the technical field of back contact cells, and particularly relates to a back contact cell, a preparation method thereof and a cellassembly. A second semiconductor layer comprises an intrinsic silicon layer and a second doped silicon layer; the second doped silicon layer comprises second doped microcrystalline silicon and second doped amorphous silicon located at the overlapping region, and further comprises an amorphous silicon insulating layer, and the amorphous silicon insulating layer is located outside the second doped amorphous silicon and does not cover the second doped microcrystalline silicon; an isolation groove is formed in the part, located in the overlapping area, of the conductive film layer, and a distance is reserved between the isolation groove and the junction of the side face of the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. Leakage current generated at the junction of the side face of the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer can be remarkably reduced, meanwhile, the passivation effect of the second semiconductor layer is guaranteed, the isolation groove does not need to stretch across the junction, the second semiconductor layer cannot be damaged, the parallel resistance of the battery is improved, and the current and efficiency of the battery are improved.
The invention discloses a solar cell and a manufacturing method thereof, relates to the field of photovoltaic technology, and aims to increase the surface area of one side, deviating from a semiconductor substrate, of a first semiconductor layer and facilitate the increase of the contact area between the first semiconductor layer and a transparent conductive layer or an electrode and other conductive materials. Therefore, the transmission loss of carriers collected in the first semiconductor layer transmitted to the conductive material is reduced, and the working efficiency of the solar cell is improved. The solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate and a first semiconductor layer. The semiconductor substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. At least one of the first surface and the second surface is a target surface. The surface of at least part of the area of the target surface is a suede, and the suede comprises a plurality of pyramid-like parts. The first semiconductor layer is disposed on the textured surface. A hole structure is arranged in the first semiconductor layer, and the hole structure is distributed in the part, covering at least part of the pyramid-like top, of the first semiconductor layer. The material of the first semiconductor layer comprises at least one of amorphous silicon, nanocrystalline silicon and microcrystallinesilicon.
The invention discloses a preparation method of an intrinsic passivation structure, the intrinsic passivation structure and a battery, the intrinsic passivation structure comprises a base layer, the surface of which is provided with a first interface layer; the first intrinsic layer is arranged on the first interface layer, and a second interface layer is arranged on the surface of the first intrinsic layer; the second intrinsic layer is arranged on the second interface layer, and a third interface layer is arranged on the surface of the second intrinsic layer; and the doped microcrystallinesilicon layer is arranged on the surface of the third interface layer. According to the invention, the surfaces of the base layer, the first intrinsic layer and the second intrinsic layer are treated, so that the contact between the intrinsic amorphous silicon and the crystalline silicon substrate is effectively improved, the generation of nano twin crystals is inhibited, the passivation effect is enhanced, and the minority carrier lifetime is prolonged.
The utility model discloses a heterojunctioncell and a photovoltaic module, and relates to the technical field of photovoltaics. The heterojunctioncell comprises a first transparent conductive layer, an n-type microcrystallinesilicon layer, a first intrinsic amorphous silicon layer, an n-type monocrystalline silicon layer, a second intrinsic amorphous silicon layer, a p-type microcrystallinesilicon layer and a second transparent conductive layer which are stacked in sequence. The heterojunctioncell also includes a first electrode connected to the first transparent conductive layer and a second electrode connected to the second transparent conductive layer. Wherein the first transparent conductive layer comprises a first zincoxide layer, a first indiumtinoxide layer and a first titaniumoxide layer which are stacked in sequence. The transparent conductive layer is arranged to be a composite layer structure made of three materials, so that the use amount of expensive indiumtin oxide can be remarkably reduced, and the cost is reduced. The first conductive film with the composite layer structure can also relieve the problem of ultraviolet-induced degradation of the heterojunction cell, improve the performance stability of the cell and prolong the service life of the cell.
The embodiment of the invention relates to the photovoltaic field, and provides a back contact solar cell, a preparation method thereof and a photovoltaic module, and the back contact solar cell comprises a substrate; the first doped regions and the second doped regions are alternately arranged on the backlight surface of the substrate; wherein the first doped region comprises a tunneling oxide layer and a first doped layer, the first doped layer is located on the side, away from the substrate, of the tunneling oxide layer, and the first doped layer is a polycrystalline silicon doped layer; the second doped region comprises an intrinsic amorphous silicon layer, a second doped layer and an insulating structure, the second doped layer and the insulating structure are located on the side, away from the substrate, of the intrinsic amorphous silicon layer, the insulating structure is located between the second doped layer and the first doped layer, and the doping type of the second doped layer is opposite to that of the first doped layer; and the second doping layer is an amorphous silicondoping layer or a microcrystallinesilicon doping layer. The back contact solar cell provided by the invention is at least beneficial to avoiding electric leakage of the back contact cell.
Disclosed in the present application are a solar cell and a manufacturing method therefor, and a photovoltaic module. The solar cell comprises: a semiconductor substrate, which has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other; and a first semiconductor layer, which is arranged on the first surface, and comprises a first part and a second part that is closely adjacent to the first part in a second direction, wherein the degree of crystallization of the first part is greater than that of the second part, and the first semiconductor layer is made of at least one of amorphous silicon, nanocrystalline silicon and microcrystallinesilicon. By providing a rational crystallized area and a rational non-crystallized area on the first semiconductor layer, the overall cell efficiency of the solar cell is optimized by means of the higher degree of crystallization of the first part, thereby improving the cell efficiency; in addition, the passivation effect of the second part is ensured by means of the lower degree of crystallization of the second part, thereby preventing electric leakage.
The invention discloses a borondoping method, a borondoping structure and a back contact battery. The method comprises the following steps: step 1) pre-crystallization treatment; step 2) pre-oxidation; (3) borondiffusion; wherein the pre-crystallization treatment is to treat the amorphous silicon layer in the siliconwafer base material in a gradient variable pressure mode in an inert gas atmosphere. According to the method, before pre-oxidation and boron diffusion, amorphous silicon is converted into microcrystallinesilicon in a gradient transformation manner, and gradual crystallization is realized, so that lattice stress is reduced, gradient distribution of grain sizes can be realized, the problem of uneven grain sizes caused by a single crystallization condition and the problem of doping concentration fluctuation caused by an unordered structure of the amorphous silicon are avoided, and the yield of the amorphous silicon is improved. According to the method, the boron atoms can be transferred to a balance position more easily, an ordered structure is formed, the distribution is more uniform, the boron-doped structure with better sheet resistance uniformity is obtained, and the photoelectric conversion efficiency of the back contact battery based on the boron-doped structure is further improved.
The invention relates to the field of solar cells, in particular to a solar cell and a photovoltaic module. The solar cell includes: a substrate; the passivation layer is arranged on the surface of the substrate, and the passivation layer comprises an intrinsic amorphous silicon layer; the intrinsic siliconoxide layer is arranged on the face, away from the substrate, of the passivation layer, the content range of high-valence siliconoxide in the intrinsic siliconoxide layer is larger than 50% and smaller than or equal to 95%, and the valence state of the silicon element in the high-valence silicon oxide is larger than or equal to positive bivalence; the doped layer comprises a doped microcrystalline silicon layer, and the doped microcrystalline silicon layer is arranged on the face, away from the passivation layer, of the intrinsic silicon oxide layer; the transparent conducting layer is arranged on one surface, deviating from the intrinsic silicon oxide layer, of the doping layer; and the electrode is arranged on the transparent conductive layer. The solar cell can solve the problem of performance restriction of the passivation layer and the doping layer caused by the existence of the incubation layer.
The embodiment of the utility model provides a solar cell, a photovoltaic module and a photovoltaic system, the solar cell comprises a first surface and a second surface which are opposite to each other, and a side surface located between the first surface and the second surface, and the side surface is provided with a first area close to the first surface and a second area close to the second surface; a first tunneling oxide layer, a first doped polycrystalline silicon layer and a first antireflection layer are sequentially stacked on the first region; and a first intrinsic amorphous silicon layer, a first doped microcrystallinesilicon layer and a second antireflection layer are sequentially laminated on the second region. According to the embodiment of the invention, the edge passivation can be enhanced, the efficiency of the solar cell is improved, the edge winding plating of the tunneling oxide layer and the doped polycrystalline silicon does not need to be removed, the etching process is reduced, and the production cost is reduced.
The invention provides a preparation method of a heterojunctionsolar cell and the heterojunctionsolar cell. The preparation method comprises the following steps: firstly, providing a monocrystalline siliconwafer and carrying out texturing cleaning on the monocrystalline siliconwafer, then respectively forming a first intrinsic amorphous silicon layer and a second intrinsic amorphous silicon layer on the front and back surfaces of the monocrystalline siliconwafer, then forming an N-type amorphous / microcrystallinesilicon layer on the first intrinsic amorphous silicon layer, then forming a P-type amorphous / microcrystallinesilicon layer on the second intrinsic amorphous silicon layer, and finally forming a P-type amorphous / microcrystalline silicon layer on the P-type amorphous / microcrystalline silicon layer on the N-type amorphous / microcrystalline silicon layer. Respectively forming a first transparent conductive film layer and a second transparent conductive film layer on the N-type amorphous / microcrystalline silicon layer and the P-type amorphous / microcrystalline silicon layer, then forming a first anti-reflection film layer and a second anti-reflection film layer on the first transparent conductive film layer and the second transparent conductive film layer, and then forming a first groove and a second groove penetrating through the first anti-reflection film layer and the second anti-reflection film layer; respectively forming a first electrode and a second electrode in the first groove and the second groove through an electroplating process; and finally, carrying out an annealing process. The mass production of the heterojunctionsolar cell with the anti-reflection film can be realized, and the contact between the metalelectrode and the transparent conductive layer is not influenced.
The invention provides a manufacturing method of a doped microcrystallinesilicon layer, a heterojunctionsolar cell and a preparation method of the heterojunctionsolar cell. The manufacturing method of the doped microcrystallinesilicon layer comprises the steps that firstly, PECVD equipment is provided, the PECVD equipment comprises a reaction cavity, an upper polar plate and a lower polar plate, the upper polar plate and the lower polar plate are located in the reaction cavity and are oppositely arranged in parallel, and the upper polar plate is connected with a radio frequency power source; placing a siliconwafer on the lower polar plate and between the upper polar plate and the lower polar plate; the substrate distance between the upper pole plate and the lower pole plate is set as a first distance, a microcrystalline silicon seed layer is deposited through a dopingdeposition process, and the first distance ranges from 26 mm to 50 mm; and finally, the distance between the substrates is adjusted to be a second distance, the dopingdeposition process is carried out, a microcrystalline silicon main layer is deposited on the microcrystalline silicon seed layer, and the range of the second distance is 10-24 mm. According to the invention, the quality of the doped microcrystalline silicon layer can be improved, the stability of the heterojunctionsolar cell is improved, and the dark attenuation of the heterojunction solar cell is reduced.
The invention discloses a hybridpassivation back contact cell and a production method thereof, and relates to the field of solar cells. The preparation method comprises the steps of siliconwaferpolishing; sequentially depositing a tunneling oxide layer and a doped polycrystalline silicon layer on the back surface of the polished siliconwafer; a P region and an N region in future are defined on the doped polycrystalline silicon layer on the back surface of the siliconwafer through laserablation; performing acid polishing treatment on the front surface of the silicon wafer; performing alkali texturing treatment on the front surface of the silicon wafer; depositing a passivation layer on the front surface of the silicon wafer; cleaning the back of the silicon wafer; an intrinsic microcrystalline silicon layer and a doped microcrystalline silicon layer are sequentially deposited on the back surface of the silicon wafer; carrying out laserablation treatment on intrinsic and P-type microcrystalline silicon on an N-region contact region on the back surface of the silicon wafer, and exposing the N + doped polycrystalline silicon layer under the intrinsic and P-type microcrystalline silicon; depositing a TCO layer; laserablation is carried out on the upper portion and the periphery of the polished lamination area of the N area and the P area, and an isolation ring groove is formed; the TBC passivationadvantage is reserved, meanwhile, the technological process is simplified through laser patterning, and the efficiency bottleneck is broken through P-region intrinsic microcrystalline silicon and boron-doped microcrystalline silicon.
The invention relates to a solar cell and a photovoltaic module. The solar cell comprises a semiconductor substrate which is provided with a front surface and a back surface which are oppositely arranged; the back surface is a polished surface; the first intrinsic semiconductor layer is arranged on the back surface; the first doped microcrystallinesilicon layer is arranged on one side, far away from the semiconductor substrate, of the first intrinsic semiconductor layer; the first doped microcrystallinesilicon layer comprises a plurality of first microcrystal grains; wherein the ratio of the length of the first microcrystal grains to the thickness of the first doped microcrystal silicon layer is a, and a meets the following relational expression: a is more than or equal to 0.8 and less than or equal to 1.1; the included angle between the length direction of the first microcrystal grains and the thickness direction of the first doped microcrystal silicon layer is alpha, and alpha meets the following relational expression that alpha is larger than or equal to 0 degree and smaller than or equal to 45 degrees. The battery efficiency can be improved, and the preparation cost can be reduced.
The application discloses a heterojunctionsolar cell and a preparation method thereof. The method comprises the following steps: forming a first microcrystallinesilicon layer on one side of a light-receiving surface of a silicon substrate; forming a second microcrystallinesilicon layer on the first microcrystalline silicon layer; and forming a third microcrystalline silicon layer on the second microcrystalline silicon layer; the deposition rates of the first microcrystalline silicon layer, the second microcrystalline silicon layer and the third microcrystalline silicon layer are respectively v1, v2 and v3; wherein v2 is less than v1, and v2 is less than v3. By arranging three microcrystalline silicon layers on the light-receiving surface of the silicon substrate and adjusting the relationship of the deposition rates of the three microcrystalline silicon layers during preparation, the optical property of the light-receiving surface of the silicon substrate can be improved, the parasitic absorption of the film layers to ultraviolet light during the working of the heterojunctionsolar cell is fundamentally prevented, and the performance of the solar cell after illumination is greatly reduced.
The invention relates to preparation of microcrystallinesilicon, in particular to a method for preparing microcrystallinesilicon, which comprises the following steps of: 1, inserting a substrate part into a preparation cavity at the bottom; 2, the conversion ring rotates to drive the substrate part to pass through the space between the two airflow cavities, and the airflow cavities spray airflow to clean the substrate part; 3, the conversion ring rotates to drive the substrate part to pass through the space between the two vacuum cavities, and the vacuum cavities conduct vacuumizing treatment on the preparation cavity; 4, the conversion ring rotates to drive the substrate part to move to the position between the two preparation parts, and the two preparation parts spray silicon source gas and excitation gas to deposit in the preparation cavity to form an amorphous silicon film; and microcrystalline silicon can be rapidly prepared in batches.
The present invention relates to a method for preparing an oxygen-doped microcrystallinesilicon thin film, comprising: texturing a siliconwafer substrate to obtain a double-sided texturized siliconwafer; depositing intrinsic silicon layers on both sides of the texturized silicon wafer to obtain a first structure; placing the first structure in a hot wire chemical vapor deposition device and introducing H2 to hydrogen etch the surface of the silicon wafer; then controlling the pressure in the reaction chamber of the hot wire chemical vapor deposition device while introducing SiH4 and H2 to deposit a seeding layer on the intrinsic silicon layer on the light-facing side of the texturized silicon wafer to obtain a second structure; and simultaneously introducing SiH4, H2, N2O, and PH3 into the reaction chamber to deposit an oxygen-doped microcrystalline silicon layer on the seeding layer of the second structure. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to an apparatus for preparing an oxygen-doped microcrystallinesilicon thin film using the above method. The present invention can form an oxygen-doped microcrystalline thin film on the light-facing side of, for example, a heterojunctioncell using a HoFCVD device, thereby solving the problem of parasitic absorption on the light-facing side.
The invention belongs to the field of battery preparation, and relates to a TCO layer coating method for reducing amorphous silicon damage of an HJT battery and the HJT battery. According to the method, the technology of low-power-density H2-free of the bottom layer and high-power-density H2 of the top layer is adopted, the film thickness is comprehensively adjusted, the film forming efficiency cannot be reduced, and meanwhile through reasonable technological condition adjustment, the obtained whole film layer is excellent in photoelectric characteristic. According to the method, the minority carrier lifetime of the battery piece after top layer film deposition is verified to be not attenuated, the minority carrier lifetime is not attenuated to represent that the non-microcrystallinesilicon layer and the microcrystallinesilicon layer are not damaged, the film forming speed and the battery characteristics are not reduced, and the damage of the non-microcrystallinesilicon can be reduced.
The utility model provides a heterojunction battery piece and production equipment thereof, and the heterojunction battery piece comprises an N-type siliconwafer, a first intrinsic amorphous silicon layer which is formed on the front surface of the N-type siliconwafer, an N-type doped microcrystallinesilicon layer which is formed on the front surface of the first intrinsic amorphous silicon layer, and a second intrinsic amorphous silicon layer which is formed on the front surface of the N-type doped microcrystalline silicon layer. The N-type doped microcrystalline silicon layer is formed on the back surface of the N-type silicon wafer, the first transparent conductive thin film layer is formed on the front surface of the N-type doped microcrystalline silicon layer, the electrode is formed on the front surface of the first transparent conductive thin film layer, the second intrinsic amorphous silicon layer is formed on the back surface of the N-type silicon wafer, and the P-type doped microcrystalline silicon layer is formed on the back surface of the second intrinsic amorphous silicon layer. The first transparent conductive thin film layer is formed on the back surface of the P-type doped microcrystalline silicon layer, the second transparent conductive thin film layer is formed on the back surface of the P-type doped microcrystalline silicon layer, the third transparent conductive thin film layer is formed on the back surface of the second transparent conductive thin film layer, the copper film layer is formed on the whole back surface of the third transparent conductive thin film layer, and the protective layer is formed on the back surface of the copper film layer.