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Influence of Co-Sputtered Ag:Al Ultra-Thin Layers in Transparent V2O5/Ag:Al/AZO Hole-Selective Electrodes for Silicon Solar Cells

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العنوان: Influence of Co-Sputtered Ag:Al Ultra-Thin Layers in Transparent V2O5/Ag:Al/AZO Hole-Selective Electrodes for Silicon Solar Cells
المؤلفون: Thomas Tom, Eloi Ros, Nicolau López-Pintó, José Miguel Asensi, Jordi Andreu, Joan Bertomeu, Joaquim Puigdollers, Cristobal Voz
المصدر: Materials; Volume 13; Issue 21; Pages: 4905
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: heterojunctions, contacts, silicon, solar cells, sputtering, transparent films, transition metal oxide
الوصف: As optoelectronic devices continue to improve, control over film thickness has become crucial, especially in applications that require ultra-thin films. A variety of undesired effects may arise depending on the specific growth mechanism of each material, for instance a percolation threshold thickness is present in Volmer-Webber growth of materials such as silver. In this paper, we explore the introduction of aluminum in silver films as a mechanism to grow ultrathin metallic films of high transparency and low sheet resistance, suitable for many optoelectronic applications. Furthermore, we implemented such ultra-thin metallic films in Dielectric/Metal/Dielectric (DMD) structures based on Aluminum-doped Zinc Oxide (AZO) as the dielectric with an ultra-thin silver aluminum (Ag:Al) metallic interlayer. The multilayer structures were deposited by magnetron sputtering, which offers an industrial advantage and superior reliability over thermally evaporated DMDs. Finally, we tested the optimized DMD structures as a front contact for n-type silicon solar cells by introducing a hole-selective vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) dielectric layer.
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اللغة: English
Relation: Thin Films and Interfaces; https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma13214905
DOI: 10.3390/ma13214905
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13214905
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.E1AF5750
قاعدة البيانات: BASE