Ion implant technology for state-of-the-art high efficiency solar cell applications

Abstract

For many years, Photovoltaic (PV) solar technology was believed not possible to be cost effective and not even close to the cost for electricity production compared to fossil fuels. Surprisingly, the fact is that low cost but powerful and long-lasting solar modules can now be mass produced at the scale of over 60GW per year which makes the LCOE (levelizedcost of electricity) of latest PV systemcost competitive with any other technologies. Similarly, for ion implant technology in solar applications, which were thought to be too slow and expensive, have been successfully been utilized in current solar cell mass production as well as producing of state-of-the-art high efficiency solar cells. The development of ion implant processes for solar cells and the latest high efficiency solar cell results will be presented in this paper.