Publication detail

Advanced non-destructive diagnostics of monocrystalline silicon solar cells

MACKŮ, R. KOKTAVÝ, P. ŠKARVADA, P.

Original Title

Advanced non-destructive diagnostics of monocrystalline silicon solar cells

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

Measurements of reverse-biased junctions can provide valuable information on the solar cells and their defects. A number of papers were published in the past concerning the measurement methodology, however, for devices having relatively low pn junction area only. The junction area is much larger in solar cells. Therefore, a new measurement methodology had to be developed for them. In large-area pn junctions, there are some phenomena which are negligible in the smaller-area junction measurements, but are introducing considerable errors in the measurement results of large-area junctions. The barrier capacity is one of the parameters of the solar cells under investigation. We employed the near-field and the electron microscopy to study the solar cell surface texture, which provided us with some information on the pn junction configuration.

Keywords

solar cell, pn junction, barrier capacitance, scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM)

Authors

MACKŮ, R.; KOKTAVÝ, P.; ŠKARVADA, P.

RIV year

2008

Released

10. 1. 2008

Publisher

WSEAS

ISBN

1109-9445

Periodical

WSEAS Transactions on Electronics

Year of study

4

Number

9

State

United States of America

Pages from

192

Pages to

197

Pages count

6

BibTex

@article{BUT48105,
  author="Robert {Macků} and Pavel {Koktavý} and Pavel {Škarvada}",
  title="Advanced non-destructive diagnostics of monocrystalline silicon solar cells",
  journal="WSEAS Transactions on Electronics",
  year="2008",
  volume="4",
  number="9",
  pages="192--197",
  issn="1109-9445"
}