2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Development of Novel Silicon Nanowire Array Solar Cells
| Project/Area Number |
24656203
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Electronic materials/Electric materials
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
YAMADA Akira 東京工業大学, 理工学研究科, 教授 (40220363)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 太陽電池 / シリコン / ナノワイヤー / 量子効果 |
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| Research Abstract |
Silicon nanowires (Si NWs) with a diameter of 30 nm were fabricated by Metal-Assisted Chemical Etching with Silica nanoparticles (MACES) on crystalline silicon substrates. The optical measurements revealed the diameter of Si NWs was about 30nm and the diamond structure was maintained after the NW fabrication process. For the passivation of Si NWs, we have developed an atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique of aluminum oxide (Al2O3), and it was found that the effective minority carrier lifetime of Si NW arrays was drastically improved up to 100usec after annealing. Finally, we fabricated Si NW solar cells with a length of 7um on Si substrates. In the case of the solar cell without an Al2O3 layer, the efficiency was about 0.06%. However the efficiency of 1.2% (Voc: 0.40V, Jsc: 10mA/cm2, FF: 0.29) was successfully achieved by applying an Al2O3 layer, showing the importance of the Al2O3 passivation layer.
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