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Assessment of a low-cost gold-free metallization for III-V high concentrator solar cells
Year:2007

Research Areas
  • Electronics engineering

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Abstract
A gold-free metallization is proposed to be used as the grid contact in III¿V concentrator solar cells. This metallization is based on the Cu/Ge system which has been reported to attain very low specific contact resistances on n-GaAs. In this letter, we show that metal layers with low resistivity (13 μΩ cm) can be obtained if the copper content in the alloy is around 28% in weight for a wide range of annealing temperatures (400¿450 °C). Finally, this metallization has been used to manufacture single-junction GaAs high concentrator solar cells. Efficiencies of 26.2% at 1000 suns have been reached.
International
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JCR
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Title
SOL ENERG MAT SOL C
ISBN
0927-0248
Impact factor JCR
2,002
Impact info
Volume
91
Journal number
9
From page
847
To page
850
Month
MAYO
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Participants

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Semiconductores III-V
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Instituto de Energía Solar
  • Departamento: Electrónica Física