power change in amorphous silicon technology by low temperature
annealing
;Mittal Ankit;Rennhofer Marcus;Dangel Angelika;Duman Bogdan;Schlosser Victor
tuberculosis research and treatment2015Vol. 6pp. 65304-
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ankit2015epjpower
Abstract
Amorphous silicon (a-Si) is one of the best established thin-film solar-cell
technologies. Despite its long history of research, it still has many critical issues
because of its defect rich material and its susceptibility to degrade under light also
called as Staebler-Wronski effect (SWE). This leads to an increase in the defect density
of a-Si, but as a metastable effect it can be completely healed at temperatures above 170 °C. Our study is focused on
investigating the behavior of annealing of different a-Si modules under low temperature
conditions below 80 °C
indicated by successive change of module power. These conditions reflect the environmental
temperature impact of the modules in the field, or integrated in buildings as well. The
power changes were followed by STC power rating and investigation of module-power
evolution under low irradiance conditions at 50 W/m2. Our samples were recovered
close to their initial state of power, reaching as high as 99% from its degraded value.
This shows the influence of low temperature annealing and light on metastable module
behavior in a-Si thin-film modules.