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    Impact of Nickel silicide Rear Metallization on Series Resistance of Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

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    Bahabry, Rabab R. cc
    Hanna, Amir N
    Kutbee, Arwa T. cc
    Gumus, Abdurrahman
    Hussain, Muhammad Mustafa cc
    KAUST Department
    Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
    Electrical Engineering Program
    KAUST Grant Number
    GEN/1/4014-01-01
    Date
    2018-04-26
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10754/626865
    
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    Abstract
    The Silicon-based solar cell is one of the most important enablers toward high efficiency and low-cost clean energy resource. Metallization of silicon-based solar cells typically utilizes screen printed silver-Aluminium (Ag-Al) which affects the optimal electrical performance. To date, metal silicide-based ohmic contacts are occasionally used as an alternative candidate only to the front contact grid lines in crystalline silicon (c-Si) based solar cells. In this paper, we investigate the electrical characteristics of nickel mono-silicide (NiSi)/Cu-Al ohmic contact on the rear side of c-Si solar cells. We observe a significant enhancement in the fill factor of around 6.5% for NiSi/Cu-Al rear contacts leading to increasing the efficiency by 1.2% compared to Ag-Al. This is attributed to the improvement of the parasitic resistance in which the series resistance decreased by 0.737 Ω.cm². Further, we complement experimental observation with a simulation of different contact resistance values, which manifests NiSi/Cu-Al rear contact as a promising low-cost metallization for c-Si solar cells with enhanced efficiency.
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    Bahabry RR, Hanna AN, Kutbee AT, Gumus A, Hussain MM (2018) Impact of Nickel silicide Rear Metallization on Series Resistance of Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells. Energy Technology. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ente.201700790.
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    This publication is based upon work supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Technology Transfer Office under Award No. GEN/1/4014-01-01.
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    Wiley
    Journal
    Energy Technology
    DOI
    10.1002/ente.201700790
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    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ente.201700790/abstract
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    Articles; Electrical Engineering Program; Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division

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