Abstract
We comprehensively investigated the performance of solar cells made from quasi-single crystalline silicon (QSC-Si) cast by the seed-assisted directional solidification (DS) method and its relationship with the area ratio of 〈100〉 -oriented single crystal of a QSC-Si wafer. It is found that the cell performance improvement triggered by alkaline texturing is more notable for the QSC-Si wafers with a morphology of higher 〈100〉 -oriented single crystal ratio, and the difference in cell efficiency between alkaline and acidic texturing is up to an absolute value of 1.05%. As the single crystal ratio of the QSC-Si wafer decreases from 100% to 50%, the cell efficiency decreases from 18.15% to 17.04%. We also compared the performance of typical CZ-Si solar cells and the QSC-Si solar cells made from wafers with fully 〈100〉 -oriented single crystal. It is found that the average efficiency of QSC-Si solar cells is about 0.8% absolutely lower than that of the CZ-Si solar cells, and it has a substantially wider range of distribution due to dislocation propagation.
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