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High efficiency black silicon solar cells achieved by optimization of emitter and surface passivation.

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The performance of black silicon solar cells with various passivation films was characterized. Large area (156×156 mm2) black silicon was prepared by silver-nanoparticle-assisted etching on pyramidal silicon wafer. The conversion efficiency of black silicon solar cell without passivation is 13.8%. For the SiO2andSiNx:H passivation, the conversion efficiency of black silicon solar cells increases to 16.1% and 16.5%, respectively. Compared to the single film of surface passivation of black silicon solar cells, the SiO2/SiNx:H stacks exhibit the highest efficiency of 17.1%. The investigation of internal quantum efficiency (IQE) suggests that the SiO2/SiNx:H stacks films decrease the Auger recombination through reducing the surface doping concentration and surface state density of the Si/SiO2interface, andSiNx:H layer suppresses the Shockley-Read-Hall (SRH) recombination in the black silicon solar cell, which yields the best electrical performance of b-Si solar cells.

Three binary solutions composed of ionic liquid (IL), 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium diethylphosphate ([EMIM] [DEP]), and selected refrigerants (water, ethanol or methanol) were proposed as new working pairs for absorption heat pumps or absorption refrigerators. The vapor–liquid equilibrium (VLE) data were measured by a static method at different temperatures and at different ILs mole factions and correlated by the None-Random Two Liquids (NRTL) activity coefficient models, and the average relative deviation were less than 3.3%. The solutions showed strong negative deviation from the Raoult's Law and were able to absorb vapor of water, ethanol or methanol. The excess enthalpies were measured and correlated at 298.15 K and atmospheric pressure. The results indicated that the mixing of [EMIM] [DEP] with water, ethanol or methanol were exothermal. The proposed solutions were proved to possess one of the fundamental features that a working pair must have in absorption cycle.

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