Dual-side electrical refinement enables efficient industrial tunnel oxide passivating contact silicon solar cells
摘要
Crystalline silicon solar cells continue to dominate the photovoltaic industry, with tunnel oxide passivating contact (TOPCon) technology emerging as a prominent candidate. However, the efficiency of industrial-scale TOPCon solar cells remains limited by their suboptimal electrical performance, falling short of the Auger limit. Here we propose a dual-sided synergistic strategy that achieves a certified efficiency of 26.66% for industrial-scale TOPCon cells on M10-size wafers. The implementation of a front-side high-sheet-resistance boron emitter improves the passivation quality, and an optimized grid design reduces carrier transport losses. A rear-side double-layer tunnel oxide silicon/polysilicon structure suppresses silver-induced degradation by preventing silver diffusion from the electrodes into the silicon substrate, thereby maintaining excellent interfacial passivation. Moreover, the high crystallinity of the inner polysilicon layer, along with a lower concentration of inactive phosphorus dopants in the silicon substrate, leads to superior passivation performance. Rear-side localized thinning of the polysilicon layer also improves the bifaciality to 88.3%.