Electric injection annealing test device and a method thereof for crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar cells

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11929448-B2
Application number	US-201817254308-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 22, 2018
Priority date	Jun 28, 2018
Publication date	Mar 12, 2024
Grant date	Mar 12, 2024

Abstract

Described herein is an electric injection annealing test device for crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar cells, the test device comprises a dark box, a sample test bench, a temperature control device, a power supply device and an image acquisition device. The sample test bench, the temperature control device, the power supply device and the image acquisition device are located in the dark box; the sample test bench is used to place a solar cell sheet; the temperature control device is used to control a temperature of the solar cell sheet; the power supply device provides a current to the solar cell sheet, the image acquisition device is used to acquire electroluminescence images of the solar cell sheet under different temperatures and current conditions.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electric injection annealing test device for crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar cells, characterized in that, the test device comprises a dark box, a sample test bench, a temperature control device, a power supply device and an image acquisition device; the sample test bench, the temperature control device, the power supply device and the image acquisition device are located in the dark box; the sample test bench is used to place a solar cell sheet; the temperature control device is used to control a temperature of the solar cell sheet; the power supply device provides a current to the solar cell sheet, the image acquisition device is used to acquire electroluminescence images of the solar cell sheet under different temperatures and current conditions; wherein the image acquisition device comprises a camera, a camera holder, a camera fixing block and a slider; the camera is fixed on the camera holder through the camera fixing block; the camera slides on the camera holder through the slider.

2. The electric injection annealing test device for crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar cells according to claim 1 , characterized in that, the dark box comprises a nitrogen gas injection terminal configured to allow nitrogen to be injected therefrom to prevent the solar cell sheet placed on the from sample test bench being oxidized during a electrical injection annealing test.

3. The electric injection annealing test device for crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar cells according to claim 1 , characterized in that, the sample test bench comprises an upper probe fixing frame, an upper probe row, a lower probe fixing frame and a lower probe row; the upper probe fixing frame fixes the upper probe row, and the lower probe fixing frame fixes the lower probe row.

4. The electric injection annealing test device for crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar cells according to claim 1 , characterized in that, the temperature control device comprises a constant temperature heating platform, a temperature sensor, a temperature control switch and a fan; the constant temperature heating platform is placed under the sample test bench; the temperature sensor is connected to the solar cell sheet, the fan is installed at an air exhaust terminal of the dark box; a temperature control switch is used to control an on-off electricity of the fan.

5. The electric injection annealing test device for crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar cells according to claim 1 , characterized in that, the power supply device is a constant current source.

6. An electric injection annealing test method for crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar cells, characterized in that, the method comprises the following steps:
turning on a temperature control device to keep a solar cell sheet at a constant temperature T;
placing the solar cell sheet on a sample test bench; connecting an electric circuit, injecting a current I into the solar cell sheet; and obtaining an initial electroluminescence image of the solar cell sheet;
maintaining the temperature T and current I unchanged, obtaining an electroluminescence image every time after a period of time until dark areas in electroluminescence images remain unchanged;
estimating a degradation time t deg and a regeneration time t re through analyzing changes of the dark areas in the electroluminescence images with respect to time to obtain a corresponding degradation rate R deg and a regeneration rate R re :
changing the temperature or the current, repeating the above steps to obtain long-term electroluminescence images of the crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells under different electrical injection annealing conditions to analyze the degradation rate R deg and the regeneration rate R re under different electrical injection annealing conditions;
based on the degradation rate R deg and the regeneration rate R re under the different electrical injection annealing conditions, analyzing effects of the temperature and the current on the degradation rate R deg and regeneration rate R re .

7. The electric injection annealing test method for crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar cells according to claim 6 , characterized in that, a range of the temperature T is 30 to 100° C., a range of the current I is 0.1 A to 15 A, a range of an interval of photographing is 1 to 10 minutes.

8. The electric injection annealing test method for crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar cells according to claim 6 , characterized in that, an effect of the temperature on the degradation rate R deg and the regeneration rate R re according to the electric injection annealing test method can be fitted to the following equation:

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T

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a

k
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,

where T is the temperature, E a is a reaction activation energy, k B =1.38×10 −23 J/K, A is the frequency factor.

9. The electric injection annealing test method for crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar cells according to claim 6 , characterized in that, an effect of the current on the degradation rate R deg and the regeneration rate R re according to the electric injection annealing test method can be fitted to the following equation:

1

R
deg

=

Assignees

• Univ South China Tech

Inventors

• Zhang Xianmin
• Cai Linlin
• Bai Shenghui

Classifications

• H10P74/27

  Structural arrangements therefor · CPC title

• H10P74/207

  Electrical properties, e.g. testing or measuring of resistance, deep levels or capacitance-voltage characteristics · CPC title

• H10P74/23

  characterised by multiple measurements, corrections, marking or sorting processes · CPC title

• H10F71/128 Primary

  Annealing · CPC title

• H01L31/1864 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic