Solar cells

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12439730-B2
Application number	US-202318501236-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 3, 2023
Priority date	May 9, 2023
Publication date	Oct 7, 2025
Grant date	Oct 7, 2025

Abstract

A solar cell comprises a substrate having an opposite first surface and a second surface, and the second surface has a first regions and a second regions adjacent in the first direction; a first passivation layer located on the first surface; a first doped layer and a tunnel oxide layer sequentially stacked in the first region; a first insulating layer located on a surface of the first doped layer away from the substrate; a second passivation layer located in the second region and extending to a surface of the first insulating layer away from the substrate; a second doped layer located on a surface of the second passivation layer away from the substrate, and a second insulating layer located between the second passivation layer and the first doped layer, the tunnel oxide layer in the first direction, a surface of the second insulating layer away from the substrate contacting with the first insulating layer.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A solar cell, comprising:
a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, the second surface having a first region and a second region adjacent in a first direction;
a first passivation layer located on the first surface;
a first doped layer and a tunnel oxide layer sequentially stacked in the first region;
a first insulating layer located on a surface of the first doped layer away from the substrate;
a second passivation layer located in the second region and extending to a surface of the first insulating layer away from the substrate;
a second doped layer located on a surface of the second passivation layer away from the substrate; and
a second insulating layer located between the second passivation layer and the first doped layer, and between the second passivation layer and the tunnel oxide layer in the first direction, wherein a side of the second insulating layer away from the substrate is in contact with the first insulating layer.

2. The solar cell of claim 1 , further comprising a first transparent conductive layer located on a surface of the second doped layer away from the substrate.

3. The solar cell of claim 2 , further comprising a first isolation trench and a second isolation trench arranged at intervals in the first direction, and penetrating the first transparent conductive layer corresponding to the first region.

4. The solar cell of claim 3 , further comprising a first grid and a second grid, wherein the first grid penetrates the first insulating layer and is in contact with the first doped layer, the second grid is in contact with the first transparent conductive layer within the second region, and wherein the first isolation trench and the second isolation trench are distributed on both sides of the first grid in the first direction respectively.

5. The solar cell of claim 3 , wherein the first isolation trench is deep into a surface of the first doped layer away from the substrate, and/or the second isolation trench is deep into the surface of the first doped layer away from the substrate.

6. The solar cell of claim 3 , wherein the first isolation trench is deep into the first doped layer without penetrating the first doped layer, and/or the second isolation trench is deep into the first doped layer without penetrating the first doped layer.

7. The solar cell of claim 1 , wherein the first insulating layer and/or the second insulating layer comprises one or more of silicon oxide, silicon nitride and silicon oxynitride.

8. The solar of claim 1 , wherein there is a height difference between the first region and the second region in a thickness direction of the substrate.

9. The solar cell of claim 1 , further comprising a first diffusion layer located on the first surface, wherein the first passivation layer is located on a surface of the first diffusion layer away from the substrate.

10. The solar cell of claim 1 , further comprising a second diffusion layer arranged in the first region, wherein the first doped layer and the tunnel oxide layer are sequentially stacked on a surface of the second diffusion layer away from the substrate.

Assignees

• Trina Solar Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yang Guangtao
• Chen Daming
• Chen Yifeng

Classifications

• H10F77/315 Primary

  the coatings being antireflective or having enhancing optical properties · CPC title

• H10F77/244

  made of transparent conductive layers, e.g. transparent conductive oxide [TCO] layers · CPC title

• H10F77/211

  for photovoltaic cells · CPC title

• H10F10/146

  Back-junction photovoltaic cells, e.g. having interdigitated base-emitter regions on the back side · CPC title

• H10F10/166

  the Group IV-IV heterojunctions being heterojunctions of crystalline and amorphous materials, e.g. silicon heterojunction [SHJ] photovoltaic cells · CPC title