Authors: Onkar S Shinde Adinath M Funde Mohit Agarwal Sandesh R Jadkar Shailaja R Mahamuni Rajiv O Dusane Neelkanth G Dhere Subhash V Ghaisas
Publish Date: 2016/09/29
Volume: 27, Issue: 12, Pages: 12459-12463
Abstract
We present a simple method for passivation of silicon solar cells at room temperature Oleylamine has been used as passivation agent on the ntype emitter of silicon solar cell surface The desired effect is seen in the form of apparent enhancement in efficiency of the solar cell after coating The efficiency increases by an amount of 14 as compared to the one without any passivation applied and antireflection coating The efficiency was found to decrease marginally and stabilized later Device performance was monitored for 100 h and the efficiency was found higher as compare to bare solar cell without passivation coatingThis research is based upon work supported in part by the Solar Energy Research Institute for India and the US SERIIUS funded jointly by the US Department of Energy Subcontract DE AC3608G028308 Office of Science Office of Basic Energy Sciences and Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Solar Energy Technology Program with support from the Office of International Affairs and the Government of India Subcontract IUSSTF/JCERDCSERIIUS/2012 dated 22 Nov 2012 The author also grateful to MNRE Govt of India for providing part of the funding for this project through Centre of Excellence in Renewable Energy at School of Energy Studies SP Pune University GOIA171 AMF acknowledges the funding from BCUD BCUD/372/2014 Savitribai Phule Pune University
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