New Approaches to Low-Cost Scalable Doping for Interdigitated Back Contact Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells Award Number: DE-EE0007553 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6 Solar Energy Technology Office Date: 8/1/2016 Location(s): CO Office(s): Golden Field...
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New Approaches to Low-Cost Scalable Doping for Interdigitated Back Contact Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells
Award Number: DE-EE0007553
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Solar Energy Technology Office
Date: 8/1/2016
Location(s): CO
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) to grow thin films for Silicon (Si) and Si-based materials such as Silicon Oxide, Silicon Nitride, metal films, and transparent conducting oxides using chemical vapor-phase deposition techniques for use in the fabrication of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells.
Proposed activities would include growth of Si-based thin films and integration into test structures. Growth of thin films would be completed by CSM in dedicated laboratory facilities on campus in Golden, CO. Further thin film growth would be completed using dopant gases (PH3 and B2H6) in the dedicated Si-based PV research facility at the National Renewable Energy lab (NREL) in Golden, CO. NREL would also be responsible for integration of these thin films into small 20X20 mm test cells. The facilities in which this lab work would occur are purpose-built for the type of activities being proposed; therefore, no new or modified permits, construction of new facilities or physical modifications to existing facilities would occur as a result of the proposed project.