Improvement of polycrystalline silicon solar cells with grain-boundary hydrogenation techniques

Abstract

Electron-beam-induced-current– and dark-current–voltage measurements have been made on p/n photovoltaic cells fabricated from polycrystalline silicon. These data have demonstrated that grain-boundary hydrogenation greatly reduces grain-boundary minority carrier recombination and improves diode current-voltage characteristics.

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