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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2011
Jianming Fu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Zheng Xu, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Jiunn Benjamin Heng, San Jose, CA (US);
Chentao Yu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jianming Fu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Zheng Xu, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Jiunn Benjamin Heng, San Jose, CA (US);
Chentao Yu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
SolarCity Corporation, San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a solar cell. The solar cell includes a Si base layer, a passivation layer situated above the Si base layer, a layer of heavily doped amorphous Si (a-Si) situated above the passivation layer, a first transparent-conducting-oxide (TCO) layer situated above the heavily doped a-Si layer, a back-side electrode situated below the Si base layer, and a front-side electrode situated above the first TCO layer. The first TCO layer comprises at least one of: GaInO, GaInSnO, ZnInO, and ZnInSnO.