• 文献标题:   Performance Improvement of Graphene/Silicon Solar Cells via Inverted Pyramid Texturation Array
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LI C, MA YC, ZHANG XY, CHEN XH, XI FS, LI SY, MA WH, CHANG YC
  • 作者关键词:   gr, si solar cell, surface texturing, silicon inverted pyramid array, smoothing treatment
  • 出版物名称:   SILICON
  • ISSN:   1876-990X EI 1876-9918
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  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1007/s12633-022-01725-4 EA MAR 2022
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

Graphene/silicon (Gr/Si) solar cells have aroused extensive research interest due to their simple structure and great potential for low-cost photovoltaic applications. Enhancing light absorption is one of the mainstream methods to improve the performance of Gr/Si solar cell. In this paper, a large scale inverted pyramid array (IPa) was prepared by a simple and cost-effective one-step copper assisted chemical etching method, followed by the surface of the silicon inverted pyramid structure smoothed with a concentrated KOH treatment. Gr/SiIPa solar cells with and without KOH smoothing were both prepared as a comparison. The results show that KOH treated SiIPa has a better Schottky junction contact between graphene and the SiIPa surface, thus silicon surface defects and carrier recombination of devices were reduced. Compared with Gr/Si solar cells, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of Gr/SiIPa device is improved by 42% with KOH smoothing procedure. Finally, the PCE of HNO3 doping Gr/SiIPa devices reached 5.58%. This study provides guide value for improving the light trap capacity of Gr/Si solar cells and simple surface smoothing treatment for inverted pyramid texturing.