Regensburg 2004 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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HL: Halbleiterphysik

HL 19: Symposium 50 Jahre Solarzelle

HL 19.2: Vortrag

Dienstag, 9. März 2004, 15:45–16:15, H15

Progress in Manufacturable High-Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells — •R. Hezel — Institut für Solarenergieforschung GmbH, Am Ohrberg 1, 31860 Emmertal

As an important step towards making photovoltaics an economic source of energy, the efficiency of industrial crystalline silicon solar cells has to be drastically increased. In this way not only more power is gained with less silicon, but simultaneously also all other area-related costs of the PV system are reduced. It is of great importance to bridge the efficiency gap between the present industrial solar cells with values of 14% to 16% and the sophisticated laboratory cells with a record efficiency close to 25%. Recently new technologies are emerging or existing ones being upgraded aiming for the ambitious goal to manufacture silicon solar cells with efficiency above 20% cost effectively in an industrial environment. Four different promising approaches of high efficiency silicon solar cells are presented in this paper, including one with bifacial sensitivity.