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US 9,040,812 B2Granted
Photovoltaic device including flexible substrate or inflexible substrate and method for manufacturing the same
AssigneeIntellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.
InventorSeung-Yeop Myong
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Abstract
A photovoltaic device including a substrate; a first electrode placed on the substrate; a second electrode which is placed opposite to the first electrode and which light is incident on; a first unit cell being placed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and including an intrinsic semiconductor layer including crystalline silicon grains making the surface of the intrinsic semiconductor layer toward the second electrode textured; and a second unit cell placed between the first unit cell and the second electrode.
Claims7
A photovoltaic device comprising:
- a substrate;
- a first electrode disposed on the substrate;
- a second electrode disposed opposite to the first electrode and on which light is incident;
- a first unit cell disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first unit cell comprising an intrinsic semiconductor layer comprising a first surface that is textured by exposed crystalline silicon grains and that faces the second electrode, and a non-textured opposing second surface;
- and
- a second unit cell disposed between the first unit cell and the second electrode,
- wherein an average crystal volume fraction of the intrinsic semiconductor layer of the first unit cell is equal to or greater than 25% and equal to or less than 75%, and
- wherein the intrinsic semiconductor layer comprises a mixed phase hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon based material comprising an amorphous silicon based material that partially covers the exposed crystalline silicon grains.
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A photovoltaic device comprising:
- a substrate;
- a first electrode disposed on a first surface of the substrate;
- a second electrode disposed opposite to the first electrode and on which light is incident;
- and
- a first unit cell disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first unit cell comprising an intrinsic semiconductor layer comprising a mixed phase hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon based material comprising an amorphous silicon based material and crystalline silicon grains, a first surface that is textured by the crystalline silicon grains exposed from a layer of amorphous silicon, and an opposing second surface,
- wherein an average crystal volume fraction of the intrinsic semiconductor layer of the first unit cell is equal to or greater than 25% and equal to or less than 75%,
- wherein the amorphous silicon based material at least partially covers the crystalline silicon grains, and
- wherein the second surface of the intrinsic semiconductor layer and the first surface of the substrate are disposed in parallel planes.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.