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Contact Resistivity Measurements and their Applicability for Accurate Series Resistance Breakdown in Heterojunction Solar Cell

Antognini, Luca  
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Senaud, Laurie-Lou
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Turkay, Deniz  
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January 1, 2022
11Th International Conference On Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics (Siliconpv 2021)
11th International Conference on Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics (SiliconPV)

In this work, we use several approaches to perform accurate Series Resistance (R-S) breakdown of a state of the art 2 cm x 2 cm screen-printed solar cell reaching 82.5% FF. On the one hand, Haschke et al.'s model for the lateral transport through the cell, coupling the TCO and wafer sheet resistances through the contact resistivity (rho(C)), predicts a reduction of R-S with increasing injection (Delta n) through the enhanced wafer conductivity [Haschke et al., J. Appl. Phys., 2020]. In contrast, we observe that the R-S of the solar cell, obtained from the difference between the J-V and Jsc-Voc curves, increases with Delta n. Similarly, Senaud et al. observed increasing rho(C) with Delta n using TLM measurements under illumination [Senaud etal., EU-PVSEC, 2020]. To investigate the discrepancy between these experimental observations and theoretical expectations, we extract rho(C) values either from dark TLM, illuminated TLM or illuminated symmetrical sample measurements and incorporate them into Haschke et al.'s model to reconstruct the R-S of the solar cell. Detailed series resistance breakdown using rho(C) values from all three tested methods show accurate R-S predictions within at MPP +/- 0.1 Omega cm(2), showing that the different approaches have sufficient accuracy to estimate the resistive losses in the solar cell under study. Regarding dependence upon injection, it was only possible to predict an increasing series-resistance trend using contact resistivity from illuminated TLM, therefore matching closer the measured linear increase of the R-S of the solar cell from MPP to open circuit conditions, while the other methods predicted a decreasing trend. We discuss practical differences between the methods and propose possible improvements.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1063/5.0090643
Web of Science ID

WOS:000862859700067

Author(s)
Antognini, Luca  
Senaud, Laurie-Lou
Turkay, Deniz  
Marthey, Lison
Dreon, Julie  
Paviet-Salomon, Bertrand  
Despeisse, Matthieu  
Boccard, Mathieu  
Ballif, Christophe  
Date Issued

2022-01-01

Publisher

AMER INST PHYSICS

Publisher place

Melville

Published in
11Th International Conference On Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics (Siliconpv 2021)
ISBN of the book

978-0-7354-4362-4

Series title/Series vol.

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volume

2487

Start page

020002

Subjects

Energy & Fuels

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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Physics, Applied

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Materials Science

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Physics

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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11th International Conference on Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics (SiliconPV)

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Apr 19-23, 2021

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November 7, 2022
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