Kaneka Corporation

Hayato Kawasaki

Kunta Yoshikawa

Kunihiro Nakano

Kenji Yamamoto

Wataru Yoshida

Katsunori Konishi

A solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a first electrode, a second electrode, and an island-shaped conductive layer. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are disposed on one principal surface of the semiconductor substrate. The first electrode is disposed on the first conductive layer and the second electrode is disposed on the second conductive layer. The first electrode and the second electrode are electrically separated, and the island-shaped conductive layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Solar cell and production method therefor, and solar cell module

The solar cell includes an n-type semiconductor layer and a p-type semiconductor layer on a first principal surface of a crystalline silicon substrate. The n-type semiconductor layer is provided so as to extend over a part on a p-type semiconductor layer-formed region provided with the p-type semiconductor layer, and a p-type semiconductor layer non-formed-region where the p-type semiconductor layer is not provided. In a region where the n-type semiconductor layer is provided on the p-type semiconductor layer, a protecting layer is between the p-type semiconductor layer and the n-type semiconductor layer. The protecting layer includes: an underlying protecting layer that is in contact with the p-type semiconductor layer; and an insulating layer that is on the underlying protecting layer. The underlying protecting layer includes an intrinsic silicon-based layer or an n-type silicon-based layer.

Solar cell and method for manufacturing same

A method for manufacturing a photoelectric conversion device, wherein the photoelectric conversion device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity-type region, a second conductivity-type region, and a boundary region on a first principal surface of a semiconductor substrate, the boundary region being in contact with and separating the first conductivity-type region and the second conductivity-type region, the method including: stacking a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer over the second conductivity-type region and the boundary region on the first principal surface of the semiconductor substrate; stacking an insulating layer over the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer in the boundary region; stacking a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer over the first conductivity-type region on the first principal surface of the semiconductor substrate and on the insulating layer; stacking an electrode layer on the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer and the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer; and forming a separation groove that separates the electrode layer.

Photoelectric conversion device and method for manufacturing same

A solar cell includes: first conductivity-type layers and second conductivity-type layers each provided on a rear surface of a semiconductor substrate; first electrodes provided on the first conductivity-type layers; and second electrodes provided on the second conductivity-type layers. The first electrodes and the second electrodes are spaced apart from each other, and the first electrodes include a plurality of regions isolated from one another by the second electrodes disposed therebetween. Each of the plurality of regions of the first electrodes includes a non-mounting electrode section and a wiring-mounting electrode section having a larger electrode height than the non-connection electrode section. In two adjacent first electrode regions, an imaginary line connecting the top of the wiring-mounting electrode section of one of the regions and the top of the wiring-mounting electrode section of the other region does not cross the second electrode disposed between the two regions.

Solar battery and solar battery module

A photoelectric conversion device includes, on one principal surface of a semiconductor substrate, a first conductivity-type region, a second conductivity-type region, and a boundary region which is in contact with each of the first conductivity-type region and the second conductivity-type region to separate these two regions. A first conductivity-type semiconductor layer is disposed over the entire first conductivity-type region and extending over the boundary region. A second conductivity-type semiconductor layer is disposed over the entire second conductivity-type region and extending over the boundary region. An insulating layer is disposed over the entire boundary region. A first electrode is disposed over the entire first conductivity-type region and extending over the boundary region, and a second electrode is disposed over the second conductivity-type region. The second electrode is not disposed over a region where the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer is formed, and thus is separated from the first electrode.

An I-V measurement method is provided for a solar cell having a collecting electrode on the first surface side of a single-crystalline silicon substrate of a first conductivity type and having a transparent electrode on the outermost surface on the second surface side of the single-crystalline silicon substrate of the first conductivity-type. An electric current is supplied to the solar cell in a state in which flexible metal foil and the transparent electrode are brought into detachable contact with each other such that the flexible metal foil follows undulations of the single-crystalline silicon substrate of a first conductivity type, and the first surface is set as a light-receiving surface. It is preferable that at least on a portion that is in contact with the transparent electrode, the metal foil is formed of at least one selected from the group consisting of Sn, Ag, Ni, In, and Cu.

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Hayato Kawasaki