Higher quality composite silicon ingot with monocrystalline and multicrystalline bricks

Hu, Dongli; Yuan, Shu; Zhang, Jinbing; Chen, Hongrong; Wang, Chen; Wang, Lei; Yu, Xuegong; Yang, Deren

doi:10.1016/j.solener.2022.08.068

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“…Cast monocrystalline silicon (mono-Si) combines the advantages of low production cost of cast multicrystalline silicon (multi-Si) and high performance of Czochralski mono-Si, which make it a promising solar cell material. [1,2] However, there are still bottlenecks in the fabrication of cast mono-Si, such as the height of low-minority-carrier lifetime areas at the bottom of the cast mono-Si ingot, [2][3][4] which need to be solved by the academic and industrial communities.…”

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Effects of Impurity Barrier Layer on the Red Zone at the Bottom of Cast Monocrystalline Si Ingot for Solar Cells

Chen,

Hu,

Zhang

et al. 2023

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A technique to prepare low‐cost high‐purity quartz sheets as impurity barrier layers between the crucible and the seed crystal is proposed herein to improve the casting process of monocrystalline Si (mono‐Si) ingots. The results show that the diffusion of metal impurities from the crucible toward a cast mono‐Si ingot can be hindered, increasing the minority carrier lifetime of Si crystals and reducing the height of the red zone at the bottom of the ingot. Solar cell devices assembled from cast mono‐Si ingots exhibit the enhancement in their overall photoelectric conversion efficiency (η) by 0.76% in comparison to those based on conventional mono‐Si ingots. Therefore, high‐purity quartz sheets as impurity barrier layers for the casting of mono‐Si ingots have great application potential in the photovoltaic industry.

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