Analysis of a point-contact BC-BJ silicon solar cell by three-dimensional numerical simulations

Esteban Augusto Guevara-Cabezas

Resumen


The design of optimized and efficient solar cells is a key factor for the future development of the photovoltaic (PV) technology. This paper focuses on three-dimensional (3D) modeling of a Back Contact-Back Junction (BC-BJ) crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells featuring a point contact (PC) scheme in the rear emitter region in order to optimize the efficiency with respect to the use of a conventional linear contact (LC) pattern. A 3D model has been built to ensure a good accuracy in the simulation of the considered solar cell structures. The developed model includes a proper modeling of the series resistance effects related to the implemented contact pattern. The TCAD Sentaurus software provided by Synopsys has been adopted to perform comparative simulations between the considered PC BC-BJ solar cell and its LC counterpart.
Our simulation results prove that the adoption of a PC scheme in the emitter region of a BC-BJ solar cell is beneficial to boost its efficiency (up to 22.43%) with respect to the conventional LC cell, while keeping lower the contacted fraction of the emitter region.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.23857/pc.v6i10.3245

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