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Highly Stable Strontium Fluoride as a Thickness Tolerant Electron‐Selective Contact for Dopant‐Free Silicon Solar Cells
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  • Wenxian Wang,
  • Lun Cai,
  • Lanxiang Meng,
  • Nuo Chen,
  • Huiqi Wei,
  • Yang Hong,
  • Yongjuan Chen,
  • Linyi Zeng,
  • Zongcun Liang
Wenxian Wang
Sun Yat-Sen University
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Lanxiang Meng
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Yongjuan Chen
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Linyi Zeng
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Zongcun Liang
Sun Yat-Sen University

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Abstract

Commercialized passivated emitter rear cell (PERC) silicon solar cells feature direct contact of metal with silicon, which leads to severe recombination loss and low open circuit voltage (Voc). To overcome the loss, the authors demonstrate a highly stable and thickness-tolerant dopant-free electron-selective contact consisting of a strontium fluoride/aluminium (SrF2/Al) stack. The inserting SrF2 layer can mitigate the Fermi-level pinning effect between the silicon substrate and the Al electrode. Besides, a relatively low Ohmic contact resistivity of 2 mΩ·cm2 on lightly doped n-type c-Si can be achieved when using 4 nm of SrF2. Moreover, the formed contact within 9 nm SrF2 is stable for over 5000 hours in the air without encapsulation. Solar cells with this novel dopant-free electron-selective contact reach a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 21.56%. The promising results and its stable nature, indicate its potential to act as efficient electron-selective contact for various optoelectronic devices.