Materials Letters, volume 309, pages 131356

Ion-implantation and photovoltaics efficiency: A review

Mandeep Kaur ¹

S. Gautam ²

Navdeep Goyal ³

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Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160 014, India |

Advanced Functional Materials Lab, Dr. S.S. Bhatnagar University Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160 014, India |

Department of Physics , Panjab University , Chandigarh, 160 014, India |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2022-02-01

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Journal: Materials Letters

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DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2021.131356

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Condensed Matter Physics

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Abstract

• Overview of ion-implantation technique for surface modification of materials. • Efficiency enhancement in the solar cells by ion-implantation technique. • Processes involved in the formation of nanoparticle with respect to the ion dose. • Nucleation and growth of nanoparticles via ion implantation. • Controlling defects in photovoltaics via ion-implantation technique. Ion-implantation is a sophisticated and advanced technique in material science to modify the material’s surface properties without changing their bulk properties by producing intermediate energy levels in the bandgap of a semiconductor. The metal/nonmetal element can be incorporated in the near-surface region of any metal/nonmetal target substrate with absolute purity using the ion-implantation technique. Ion-implantation in photovoltaic (PV) cells attracted the attention of investigators because of its ability to implant the required metal ions into the substrate layers with the advantage of controlling the location and the composition to acquire high performance by allowing the multi-stage transition of electrons. This featured letter elaborates the ion-implantation technological application to photovoltaics, providing a opportunity to optimize the production of advanced solar cell structure by modifying the defects in the crystal lattice and hence optimizing the processing steps for quality enhancements. The ion-implantation technology has established outstanding enhancement in conversion efficiency, improvement in conductivity by reducing the recombination rate of electron-hole pairs and hence the light-harvesting ability in thin films of the solar cells.

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DO - 10.1016/j.matlet.2021.131356

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TI - Ion-implantation and photovoltaics efficiency: A review

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AU - Kaur, Mandeep

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@article{2022_Kaur,

author = {Mandeep Kaur and S. Gautam and Navdeep Goyal},

title = {Ion-implantation and photovoltaics efficiency: A review},

journal = {Materials Letters},

year = {2022},

volume = {309},

publisher = {Elsevier},

month = {feb},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2021.131356},

pages = {131356},

doi = {10.1016/j.matlet.2021.131356}

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